Controllable flow and manipulation of liquid metals

Y He, J You, MD Dickey, X Wang - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes the controllable flow and manipulation of gallium‐based liquid
metals (eg, eutectic gallium indium, EGaIn). There are generally only a few ways to handle …

Liquid metal droplet dynamics

X Zhao, M Qiao, Y Zhou, J Liu - Droplet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The unique properties to combine the dual merits of both liquids and metals together make
the gallium‐based liquid metal (LM) droplets a class of unconventional substitute which …

Fluid pum** by liquid metal droplet utilizing ac electric field

CL Song, Y Tao, WY Liu, YC Chen, R Xue, TY Jiang… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We report a unique phenomenon in which liquid metal droplets (LMDs) under a pure ac
electric field pump fluid. Unlike the directional pum** that occurs upon reversing the …

Impact dynamics of droplets on the well-designed wrinkled surfaces: Enhancement of bounding ability

T Li - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Designing the nanostructured substrates with efficiently executing self-cleaning functions
such as anti-icing, anti-fogging, anti-flaming, and anti-corrosion is always a hot scientific …

Jum** liquid metal droplets controlled electrochemically

M Song, N Mehrabian, S Karuturi, MD Dickey - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Jum** droplets are interesting because of their applications in energy harvesting, heat
transfer, anti-icing surfaces, and displays. Typically, droplets “jump” from a surface when two …

An Oscillation System Based on a Liquid Metal Droplet and Pillars under a Direct Current Electric Field

L Dai, X Wu, Z Hu, H Hou, S Gao, Y Lin, Z Yuan - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Gallium-based liquid metal is a new class of material that has attracted extensive attention
due to its excellent deformation characteristics and great potential in applications. Based on …

Thermoplastic and electrically conductive fibers for highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensors

Y Li, H Peng, Y Peng, J Zhou… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stretchable and conductive fibers have attracted immense interest in the fields of electronic
skin, smart textiles, and environmental monitoring due to their inherited unique …

The coalescence and oscillation of eutectic gallium indium alloy droplets

L Dai, X Wu, H Hou, Z Hu, Y Lin, Z Yuan - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gallium-based liquid metal droplets have excellent deformation performance, and their
oscillation has huge potential in oscillator and organ-on-chip research. At present, the …

Multifunctional liquid microrobots based on paramagnetic microdroplets

Q Li, F Feng, M Xu, Y Liu, M Li, X Feng, X Wang… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2023 - cell.com
The liquid robot, an advanced form of the soft robot, can freely transform between different
morphologies. From the perspective of materials science, difficulty fabricating liquid …

Uniform and Persistent Jum** Detachment of Condensed Nanodroplets

C Ma, L Wang, Z Xu, W Tong, Q Zheng - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Realizing jum** detachment of condensed droplets from solid surfaces at the smallest
sizes possible is vital for applications such as antifogging/frosting and heat transfer. For …