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SUBMITTER: Wang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6648024 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Hongzhang H Yao Youyou Y Wang Xiangjiang X Sheng Lei L Yang Xiao-Hu XH Cui Yuntao Y Zhang Pengju P Rao Wei W Guo Rui R Liang Shuting S Wu Weiwei W Liu Jing J He Zhi-Zhu ZZ
ACS omega 20190130 1
Most of the existing robots would find it difficult to stretch and transform all parts of their body together due to rigid components and complex actuation mechanisms inside. Here, we presented a highly transformable liquid-metal composite (LMC) that is easy to change shape in large magnitude and resume its original state again according to need. When subject to heating, part of the ethanol droplets embedded in the composite would change phase and then actuate. We demonstrate the flexible transf ...[more]