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  • Materials Science
  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Solid ferromagnets are rigid and unchangeable.
  • Ferrofluids are reconfigurable but lose magnetization without a magnetic field.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To create reconfigurable magnetic liquid droplets.
  • To achieve stable ferromagnetic properties in liquid constructs.

Main Methods:

  • Assembling a monolayer of magnetic nanoparticles at the water-oil interface.
  • Inducing jamming to create a reversible paramagnetic-to-ferromagnetic transition.

Main Results:

  • Ferromagnetic liquid droplets with coercivity and remanent magnetization were created.
  • These droplets maintained magnetic properties after field removal.
  • Droplets could be reconfigured into various shapes.

Conclusions:

  • The novel ferromagnetic liquid droplets offer reconfigurability and stable magnetism.
  • Precise remote actuation of droplet motion is possible.
  • Potential applications include active matter, energy-dissipative assemblies, and programmable liquid constructs.