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Flex Appeal: Researchers Create Carbon Nanotube Muscles. Researchers for decades have been developing polymers and other materials they hope to someday use to create artificial muscles that, when given an electrical charge, mimic the real thing more cheaply and effectively than the hydraulic systems and electric motors used today. A group of scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas' Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute reports in Science today that they have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, consisting almost exclusively of carbon nanotubes, which can operate at extreme low temperatures that would cause other artificial muscles systems to freeze and at very high temperatures that would cause other muscle systems to decompose. Although artificial muscles generally operate on the same principal as animal muscles, the carbon nanotube artificial muscle is not likely to be used in prosthetic limbs or to replace tissue.

Chemical & Engineering News. Science. MY GRAPHENE FUTURE. Carbon. Royal Society of Chemistry. Early Careers Chemistry Association - Resource Centre. President Obama Names Top U.S. Early Career Scientists and Engineers. Press Release 11-207 President Obama Names Top U.S. Early Career Scientists and Engineers Twenty-one NSF-funded, NSF-nominated researchers are among the 94 scientists and engineers to receive the Administration's highest honor for early career research and outreach October 17, 2011 On Friday at the White House, President Barack Obama honored 94 women and men with the United States government's highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers--the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

The National Science Foundation (NSF) nominated 21 of the awardees, who come from universities around the country and excel in research in a variety of scientific disciplines: biological sciences; computer and information science and engineering; education and human resources; engineering; geosciences; mathematical and physical sciences; and social, behavioral and economic sciences. The 2010 NSF-nominated awardees are: Amir S.