Artificial Muscles That Can Be Controlled By Light

Robotic muscles that contract in response to a light pulse; cube-shaped screens on which three-dimensional images can be viewed from all angles: Professor Dr. Henry Dube of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is hoping to develop materials for entirely new applications over the next four years. They are based on tiny molecular machines, each consisting of only a few dozen atoms.

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