Hello,

I am trying to make artificial muscles out of the nylon fishing line and to actuate the muscles I plan on using joule heating, but I have read some research papers which say that we can apply conductive silver paint on the nylon and then pass the electricity through it, but wouldn't it take a lot of energy to to heat the silver since it has a very low resistance, I also want to know if its feasible to use Nichrome wires instead of silver paint for joule heating.

Thanks