Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle"

brindafella writes "Researchers have made what they describe as an 'almost embarrassing' discovery, that twisted nylon fishing line can form a 'powerful, large-stroke, high-stress artificial muscle' capable of lifting as much as 100 times more weight than human muscles. They twisted the fishing line, then heated it to 'set' the shape-memory. The scientists are from the Australian Research Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at the University of Wollongong, and the University of Texas. The findings are published in Science magazine."

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so they invented the spring

[Gothmolly]

They took a material with high tensile strength, coiled it, and annealed it into shape - and now it resists tension! Call Isaac Newton!