Carbon materials are the key to a clean, safe, and sustainable working environment and advanced energy-related devices because they can be reused, recycled, and repurposed. However, effort is necessary to make them ideal candidates for such applications. Here, we design unprecedented carbon materials in the form of covalent-organic and metal-organic frameworks having antagonistic properties to achieve the desirable electro-active artificial muscles. A careful structural investigation is carried out to determine the structure–property relationship, while the fascinating properties of them are validated by real-field demonstrations. The proposed carbon materials show significantly high blocking force, that is ≈30 times of its weight and high bending deflection with fast rising.
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