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SUBMITTER: Hollo G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7854757 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20210202 1
Field-assisted self-assembly, motion, and manipulation of droplets have gained much attention in the past decades. We exhibit an electric field manipulation of the motion of a liquid metal (mercury) droplet submerged in a conductive liquid medium (a solution of sulfuric acid). A mercury droplet moves toward the cathode and its path selection is always given by the steepest descent of the local electric field potential. Utilizing this unique behavior, we present several examples of droplet motion ...[more]