Liquid metal droplets enabled soft robots

L Zheng, S Handschuh‐Wang, Z Ye, B Wang - Applied Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robots have attracted significant interest due to their suitability for applications in a
variety of engineering and biomedical applications. Particularly, fluid-based soft robots, such …

Actuation technique of liquid metal in thermal management: A review

C Qin, P Song, X Sun, R Wang, M Wei… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Liquid metal-based thermal management technology has broad application prospects in the
heat transfer controls of high-power electronic devices and energy storage units. The low …

Ultrasound-propelled nanomotors for efficient cancer cell ferroptosis

T Chen, J Yang, H Zhao, D Li, X Luo, Z Fan… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferroptosis is a non-apoptotic form of cell death that is dependent on the accumulation of
intracellular iron that causes elevation of toxic lipid peroxides. Therefore, it is crucial to …

Leech‐Inspired Shape‐Encodable Liquid Metal Robots for Reconfigurable Circuit Welding and Transient Electronics

B Wang, B Zhang, Y Tan, F Ji, G Lv… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Deformability and self‐adaptability are important for soft robots to deal with uncertain and
varying situations and environments during movement and navigation. Droplet‐based …

Liquid metal swimming nanorobots

Z Li, J Xu, Z Wu, B Guo, Q He - Accounts of Materials Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Room temperature liquid metal gallium-based materials have received
tremendous attention owing to their potential promises in various aspects including …

Current progress in gallium-based liquid metals for combinatory phototherapeutic anticancer applications

W Lee, CE Lee, HJ Kim, K Kim - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2023 - Elsevier
A variety of therapeutic approaches using liquid metal (LM) have been intensively
investigated, due to its unique physico-chemical properties that include high surface tension …

Using H 2 O 2 as a green oxidant to produce fluorescent GaOOH nanomaterials from a liquid metal

K Sarageng, W Wongprom, W Noorith… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a simple and rapid method for the synthesis of fluorescent gallium oxyhydroxide
(GaOOH) nanoparticles from liquid Ga by a probe sonication method in the presence of …

Bifunctional biohybrid magnetically propelled microswimmer

T Chen, H Zhao, Y Zheng, Y Cai, B Ren… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inspired by the intrinsic helical structures of vessels in banana leaves, a novel bifunctional
biohybrid magnetic microswimmer with both environment remediation and biomedical …

Refillable fuel-loading microshell motors for persistent motion in a fuel-free environment

D Wang, C Chen, J Sun, H Ao, W **ao… - ACS applied materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Artificial micro-/nanomotors that harvest environmental energy to move require energy
surroundings; thus, their motion generally occurs in fuel solutions or under the real-time …

Powering and fabrication of small-scale robotics systems

S Pané, P Wendel-Garcia, Y Belce, XZ Chen… - Current Robotics …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The increasing number of contributions in the field of small-
scale robotics is significantly associated with the progress in material science and process …