Automatic Morphology Control of Liquid Metal using a Combined Electrochemical and Feedback Control Approach.

ABSTRACT: Gallium-based liquid metal alloys have been attracting attention from both industry and academia as soft, deformable, reconfigurable and multifunctional materials in microfluidic, electronic and electromagnetic devices. Although various technologies have been explored to control the morphology of liquid metals, there is still a lack of methods that can achieve precise morphological control over a free-standing liquid metal droplet without the use of mechanical confinement. Electrochemical manipulation can be relatively easy to apply to liquid metals, but there is a need for techniques that can enable automatic and precise control. Here, we investigate the use of an electrochemical technique combined with a feedback control system to automatically and precisely control the morphology of a f

SUBMITTER: Li M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6471279 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature