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
Main Authors: | Mengmeng Sun, Bo Hao, Shihao Yang, Xin Wang, Carmel Majidi, Li Zhang |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-12-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35646-y |
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