IFTF's Future Now: links for 2006-12-09

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December 09, 2006

Technology Review: Ultrastrong Carbon-Nanotube Muscles

By spinning carbon nanotubes into yarn a fraction of the width of a human hair, researchers have developed artificial muscles that exert 100 times the force, per area, of natural muscle. This is according to Ray Baughman, director of the Nanotech Institut

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