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Jie Zhang1, Youyou Yao, Lei Sheng
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|March 5, 2015
Abstract:
A liquid metal motor that can "eat" aluminum food and then move spontaneously and swiftly in various solution configurations and structured channels for more than 1 h is discovered. Such a biomimetic mollusk is highly shape self-adaptive by closely conforming to the geometrical space it voyages in. The first ever self-fueled pump is illustrated as one of its typical practical utilizations.
