{"id":33922,"date":"2017-01-29T06:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/textile-muscles-could-find-use-in-a-literal-power-suit"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:49:23","slug":"textile-muscles-could-find-use-in-a-literal-power-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/textile-muscles-could-find-use-in-a-literal-power-suit","title":{"rendered":"Textile muscles could find use in a literal \u201cpower suit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/textile-muscles-could-find-use-in-a-literal-power-suit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are many people who could use a bit of help moving their limbs, but they don\u2019t necessarily need a full-on <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/exoskeleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">exoskeleton<\/a>. Well, imagine if their <em class=\"\">clothes<\/em> could provide that help. Such a thing may one day be possible, thanks to the recent creation of \u201ctextile muscles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a study conducted at Sweden\u2019s Link\u00f6ping University and University of Bor\u00e5s, scientists coated mass-producible cellulose yarn with a flexible electroactive polymer known as polypyrrole.<\/p>\n<p>When a low voltage is applied to the polymer, it increases in volume, causing the yarn fibers to increase in length accordingly \u2013 when the electrical current is switched off, the fibers retract back to their original length. By varying the manner in which those fibers are woven together, it\u2019s possible to tune the force of the material toward different tasks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/textile-muscles\/47596\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/textile-muscles\/47596\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people who could use a bit of help moving their limbs, but they don\u2019t necessarily need a full-on exoskeleton. Well, imagine if their clothes could provide that help. Such a thing may one day be possible, thanks to the recent creation of \u201ctextile muscles.\u201d In a study conducted at Sweden\u2019s Link\u00f6ping University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65262,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33922\/revisions\/65262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}