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 actuators: A comparative analysis of surface tension controlled actuation

J Liao, C Majidi, M Sitti - Advanced Materials, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metals, with their unique combination of electrical and mechanical properties, offer
great opportunities for actuation based on surface tension modulation. Thanks to the scaling …

Coaxially printed magnetic mechanical electrical hybrid structures with actuation and sensing functionalities

Y Zhang, C Pan, P Liu, L Peng, Z Liu, Y Li… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Soft electromagnetic devices have great potential in soft robotics and biomedical
applications. However, existing soft-magneto-electrical devices would have limited hybrid …

Magnetoactive liquid-solid phase transitional matter

Q Wang, C Pan, Y Zhang, L Peng, Z Chen, C Majidi… - Matter, 2023‏ - cell.com
Magnetically actuated miniature machines can perform multimodal locomotion and
programmable deformations. However, they are either solid magnetic elastomers with …

A liquid metal artificial muscle

J Shu, DA Ge, E Wang, H Ren, T Cole… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Artificial muscles possess a vast potential in accelerating the development of robotics,
exoskeletons, and prosthetics. Although a variety of emerging actuator technologies are …

Light-induced dynamic manipulation of liquid metal droplets in the ambient atmosphere

S Tan, X Han, Y Sun, P Guo, X Sun, Z Chai, L Jiang… - ACS …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Dynamic manipulation of liquid metal (LM) droplets, a material combining metallicity and
fluidity, has recently revealed tremendous potential in develo** unconstrained …

Liquid metal smart materials toward soft robotics

S Chen, HZ Wang, TY Liu, J Liu - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Unlike conventional rigid machines, soft robots generally have unique operation styles that
rely heavily on soft matter engineering and smart material systems. Owing to the superior …

Circuits and antennas incorporating gallium-based liquid metal

YW Wu, S Alkaraki, SY Tang, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews the application and technology advancement of gallium (Ga)-based
liquid metal (LM) in high-frequency circuits and antennas. It discusses the material …

Soft Robots with Plant‐Inspired Gravitropism Based on Fluidic Liquid Metal

G Chen, B Ma, Y Chen, Y Chen, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants can autonomously adjust their growth direction based on the gravitropic response to
maximize energy acquisition, despite lacking nerves and muscles. Endowing soft robots with …

Ferromagnetic liquid metal putty‐like material with transformed shape and reconfigurable polarity

L Cao, D Yu, Z **a, H Wan, C Liu, T Yin… - Advanced …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
It is remarkably desirable and challenging to design reconfigurable ferromagnetic materials
with high electrical conductivity. This has attracted great attention due to promising …