Word: nereus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That could change, because the mission to asteroid 4660 Nereus has thrust artificial muscles into the limelight. Whereas human limbs move by contracting and relaxing muscles, Bar-Cohen's artificial variety bends in response to electricity. Apply a charge to one side of a strip, and ions within the polymer are pushed to the opposite side, effectively lengthening one surface while shortening the other...
...just like it didn't happen. It's weird. We prepared for so long," said Martyntje Quik, coxswain of the women's eight-person squad from the Nereus rowing club in Amsterdam...
This was the first year the Nereus women's crew could accompany the men's team to the event...