Mini/Micro/Nano Scale Liquid Metal Motors: Comparison
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Swimming motors navigating in complex fluidic environments have received tremendous attention over the last decade. In particular, liquid metal (LM) as a new emerging material has shown considerable potential in furthering the development of swimming motors, due to their unique features such as fluidity, softness, reconfigurability, stimuli responsiveness, and good biocompatibility. LM motors can not only achieve directional motion but also deformation due to their liquid nature, thus providing new and unique capabilities to the field of swimming motors. 

  • liquid metal
  • micro/nano scale
  • motors
  • transformability
  • propulsion
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