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 …

Reconfigurable Liquid‐Bodied Miniature Machines: Magnetic Control and Microrobotic Applications

Q Wang, N Xiang, J Lang, B Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft miniature machines demonstrate multimodal actuation and morphology change
capabilities in narrow spaces smaller than their dimension. The wirelessly controlled soft …

Critical review on the physical properties of gallium-based liquid metals and selected pathways for their alteration

S Handschuh-Wang, FJ Stadler… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Gallium-based liquid metals have gained plenty of attention in the scientific community due
to their extraordinary properties. The most intriguing properties of liquid metals are high …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid metals as soft electromechanical actuators

T Cole, SY Tang - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Leveraging the unique properties of liquids, such as surface tension, capillary action,
reconfigurability, nearly unlimited stretchability, and viscosity has enabled the development …

Fluid pumping 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 pumping that occurs upon reversing the …

DC electric field-driven heartbeat phenomenon of gallium-based liquid metal on a floating electrode

Z Ge, Y Tao, W Liu, C Song, R Xue, H Jiang, Y Ren - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The heart beating phenomenon of room temperature liquid metal (LM) mercury has attracted
much attention in the past years, but its research and application are limited because of the …

Droplet transportation by adjusting the temporal phase shift of surface acoustic waves in the exciter–exciter mode

M Sui, H Dong, G Mu, J Xia, J Zhao, Z Yang, T Li… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet actuation using Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology has been widely
employed in 'lab-on-a-chip'applications, such as for on-chip Polymerase Chain Reactions …

Pumping of electrolyte with mobile liquid metal droplets driven by continuous electrowetting: A full‐scaled simulation study considering surface‐coupled …

W Liu, Y Tao, Z Ge, J Zhou, R Xu, Y Ren - Electrophoresis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the excellent merits of both solid conductors and rheological fluids, liquid metal (LM)
provides new opportunities to serve as flexible building blocks of miniaturized electronic and …

Bioinspired Liquid Metal based Soft Humanoid Robots

N Li, X Yuan, Y Li, G Zhang, Q Yang, Y Zhou… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The pursuit of constructing humanoid robots to replicate the anatomical structures and
capabilities of human beings has been a long‐standing significant undertaking and …