Controllable flow and manipulation of liquid metals

Y He, J You, MD Dickey, X Wang - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - 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 …

A self-powered, high-precision and minimum-channel touch panel coupling triboelectrification and uniform resistance film

Z Hu, X Hui, S Li, L Tang, J Sun, H Zeng, J Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Touch panels utilizing surface-capacitive mechanism are ubiquitous in our daily life.
However, the need for an additional probe signal generator and receiver module to detect …

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 …

Temperature-responsive peristome-structured smart surface for the unidirectional controllable motion of large droplets

Y Song, J Yang, X Zhang, Z Zhang, X Hu… - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
The manipulation of fast, unidirectional motion for large droplets shows important
applications in the fields of fog collection and biochemical reactions. However, driving large …

Bioinspired Underwater Superoleophilic Two-Dimensional Surface with Asymmetric Oleophobic Barriers for Unidirectional and Long-Distance Oil Transport

S Guo, X Liu, C Guo, Y Ning, K Yang, C Yu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Unidirectional and long-distance liquid transport is critically important to a range of practical
applications, eg, water harvesting, microfluidics, and chemical reactions. Great efforts have …

Experimental study on the performance of a mini-scale Y-type mixer with two liquid metal-enabled pumps

A Mohammad Jafarpour… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The mixing process of two liquids inside an open minichannel was experimentally studied in
the presence of liquid metal and an electric field. The Y-type mixers under study were made …

Asymmetric branch selection and splitting of droplets in T-junction microchannels

Y Pang, S Jiao, Y Lu, Q Yang, X Wang, Z Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The droplet motion in the T-junction is the basis for the design of droplet microfluidic chip.
This paper investigates droplet motion in T-junction microchannels based on experiments …

A tripodal wheeled mobile robot driven by a liquid metal motor

R Xue, W Guo, Y Tao, Y Ren - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
As a novel driving concept, the liquid metal motor (LMM) has been regarded as a promising
actuator due to its unique traits, such as infinitely variable speed, lack of transmission chain …

3D actuation of foam-core liquid metal droplets

Y Chen, X Chen, Z Zhu, M Sun, S Li, M Gan, SY Tang… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Precise manipulation of liquid metal (LM) droplets possesses the potential to enable a wide
range of applications in reconfigurable electronics, robotics, and microelectromechanical …

A visual portable microfluidic experimental device with multiple electric field regulation functions

W Guo, Y Tao, W Liu, C Song, J Zhou, H Jiang, Y Ren - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
High portability and miniaturization are two of the most important objectives pursued by
microfluidic methods. However, there remain many challenges for the design of portable and …