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Self‐Fueled Motors: Self‐Fueled Biomimetic Liquid Metal Mollusk (Adv. Mater. 16/2015)
Author(s) -
Zhang Jie,
Yao Youyou,
Sheng Lei,
Liu Jing
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201570107
Subject(s) - materials science , biomimetics , aluminium , liquid metal , nanotechnology , self assembly , metal , soft robotics , composite material , robot , metallurgy , computer science , artificial intelligence
J. Liu and co‐workers demonstrate on page 2648, a self‐powered soft liquid metal robot that can “eat” aluminum food and then move spontaneously and swiftly in various solution environments and structured channels for more than one hour. Such a biomimetic mollusk is highly shape‐adaptive by deforming itself to the geometrical space it voyages in. This unusual behavior closely resembles that of living organisms in nature.