Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines

Ferrofluids with their extreme deformability are being used as soft machines. Using ferrofluids, Sun et al. show a variety of soft machines by playing with the wetting properties of solid surfaces

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Main Authors: Mengmeng Sun, Bo Hao, Shihao Yang, Xin Wang, Carmel Majidi, Li Zhang
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Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35646-y
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author Mengmeng Sun
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description Ferrofluids with their extreme deformability are being used as soft machines. Using ferrofluids, Sun et al. show a variety of soft machines by playing with the wetting properties of solid surfaces
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spelling doaj.art-f50381a8d319444a8f1cfbdff64e1cbf2022-12-25T12:21:17ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232022-12-0113111410.1038/s41467-022-35646-yExploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machinesMengmeng Sun0Bo Hao1Shihao Yang2Xin Wang3Carmel Majidi4Li Zhang5Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong KongDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong KongDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong KongDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong KongDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong KongFerrofluids with their extreme deformability are being used as soft machines. Using ferrofluids, Sun et al. show a variety of soft machines by playing with the wetting properties of solid surfaceshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35646-y
spellingShingle Mengmeng Sun
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title Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines
title_full Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines
title_fullStr Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines
title_full_unstemmed Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines
title_short Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines
title_sort exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35646-y
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