Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines

Mengmeng Sun; Bo Hao; Shihao Yang; Xin Wang; Carmel Majidi; Li Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35646-y

Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Exploiting ferrofluidic wetting for miniature soft machines

Mengmeng Sun,
Bo Hao,
Shihao Yang,
Xin Wang,
Carmel Majidi,
Li Zhang

Affiliations

Mengmeng Sun: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bo Hao: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shihao Yang: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xin Wang: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Carmel Majidi: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Li Zhang: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35646-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Ferrofluids with their extreme deformability are being used as soft machines. Using ferrofluids, Sun et al. show a variety of soft machines by playing with the wetting properties of solid surfaces

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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