Nanotubes makes super-twisty ‘muscle’

A nanotube fibre that twists like muscles in an elephant trunk has been discovered, which could one day propel nanobots.

Professor Geoff Spinks of the University of Wollongong’s Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and colleagues report their findings today in the journal Science — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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