Today in science, A couple of crazy students made this crazy new substance. This substance is basically a "Transparent Artificial muscle", able to carry ion charges, not the typical electric charge. whats crazy about this is:
1. charged ions are the electricity of the human body...And this substance has no problems carrying it....
2.This Ion Conductor can be stretched to many times their normal area. Without increased Resistance
Jeong-Yun Sun and Christoph Keplinger, Harvard University
, demonstrate here, two major advantages of ionic conductors are that they can be very stretchy and completely transparent,
two properties difficult to achieve with electronics.
(Credit: Photo by Eliza Grinnell, SEAS Communications.)
They reason i find this amazing is the fact that this new "Transparent Artificial Muscle" can be just that, a muscle. The medical applications are endless. Artificial Organs and limbs meshed with this material, to create something that will put us in a new age of medical science.
Something Cool:
( Cross your eyes, and try to make three pictures and the image should appear as 3-D. This is a stereoscopic)
