Self-fueled biomimetic liquid metal mollusk.

Zhang, Jie; Yao, Youyou; Sheng, Lei; Liu, Jing · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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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.

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