Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano
Droplets exist widely in nature and play an extremely important role in a broad variety of industrial processes. Typical droplets, including water and oil droplets, have received extensive attention and research, however their single properties still cannot meet diverse needs. Fortunately, liquid me...
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| author | Minghui Duan Xiyu Zhu Xiaohui Shan Hongzhang Wang Sen Chen Jing Liu |
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| description | Droplets exist widely in nature and play an extremely important role in a broad variety of industrial processes. Typical droplets, including water and oil droplets, have received extensive attention and research, however their single properties still cannot meet diverse needs. Fortunately, liquid metal droplets emerging in recent years possess outstanding properties, including large surface tension, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, convenient chemical processing, easy transition between liquid and solid phase state, and large-scale deformability, etc. More interestingly, liquid metal droplets with unique features can respond to external factors, including the electronic field, magnetic field, acoustic field, chemical field, temperature, and light, exhibiting extraordinary intelligent response characteristics. Their development over the past decade has brought substantial breakthroughs and progress. To better promote the advancement of this field, the present article is devoted to systematically summarizing and analyzing the recent fundamental progress of responsive liquid metal droplets, not only involving droplet characteristics and preparation methods, but also focusing on their diverse response behaviors and mechanisms. On this basis, the challenges and prospects related to the following development of liquid metal droplets are also proposed. In the future, responsive liquid metal droplets with a rapid development trend are expected to play a key role in soft robots, biomedicine, smart matter, and a variety of other fields. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-999884a35eb44d059f28d94901417f222023-11-30T21:39:33ZengMDPI AGNanomaterials2079-49912022-04-01128128910.3390/nano12081289Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to NanoMinghui Duan0Xiyu Zhu1Xiaohui Shan2Hongzhang Wang3Sen Chen4Jing Liu5Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaDroplets exist widely in nature and play an extremely important role in a broad variety of industrial processes. Typical droplets, including water and oil droplets, have received extensive attention and research, however their single properties still cannot meet diverse needs. Fortunately, liquid metal droplets emerging in recent years possess outstanding properties, including large surface tension, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, convenient chemical processing, easy transition between liquid and solid phase state, and large-scale deformability, etc. More interestingly, liquid metal droplets with unique features can respond to external factors, including the electronic field, magnetic field, acoustic field, chemical field, temperature, and light, exhibiting extraordinary intelligent response characteristics. Their development over the past decade has brought substantial breakthroughs and progress. To better promote the advancement of this field, the present article is devoted to systematically summarizing and analyzing the recent fundamental progress of responsive liquid metal droplets, not only involving droplet characteristics and preparation methods, but also focusing on their diverse response behaviors and mechanisms. On this basis, the challenges and prospects related to the following development of liquid metal droplets are also proposed. In the future, responsive liquid metal droplets with a rapid development trend are expected to play a key role in soft robots, biomedicine, smart matter, and a variety of other fields.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/8/1289liquid metaldropletsstimuli-responsive materialssmart mattermotors |
| spellingShingle | Minghui Duan Xiyu Zhu Xiaohui Shan Hongzhang Wang Sen Chen Jing Liu Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano Nanomaterials liquid metal droplets stimuli-responsive materials smart matter motors |
| title | Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano |
| title_full | Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano |
| title_fullStr | Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano |
| title_full_unstemmed | Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano |
| title_short | Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano |
| title_sort | responsive liquid metal droplets from bulk to nano |
| topic | liquid metal droplets stimuli-responsive materials smart matter motors |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/8/1289 |
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