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SUBMITTER: Tang SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3948272 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140218 9
Small-scale pumps will be the heartbeat of many future micro/nanoscale platforms. However, the integration of small-scale pumps is presently hampered by limited flow rate with respect to the input power, and their rather complicated fabrication processes. These issues arise as many conventional pumping effects require intricate moving elements. Here, we demonstrate a system that we call the liquid metal enabled pump, for driving a range of liquids without mechanical moving parts, upon the applic ...[more]