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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author | Mengmeng Sun Bo Hao Shihao Yang Xin Wang Carmel Majidi Li Zhang |
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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 Bo Hao Shihao Yang Xin Wang Carmel Majidi Li Zhang Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines Nature Communications |
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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