A5008672005- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Soft Robotics and Applications
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Optical measurement and interference techniques
Tsinghua University
2015-2019
Indiana University School of Medicine
2017
A liquid metal motor that can “eat” aluminum food and then move spontaneously swiftly in various solution configurations structured channels for more than 1 h is discovered. Such a biomimetic mollusk highly shape self-adaptive by closely conforming to the geometrical space it voyages in. The first ever self-fueled pump illustrated as one of its typical practical utilizations. As service our authors readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied authors. materials are peer...
Materials with a temperature-controlled reversible electrical transition between insulator and conductor are attracting huge attention due to their promising applications in many fields. However, most of them intrinsically rigid require complicated fabrication processes. Here, highly stretchable (680% strain) liquid metal polymer composite as transitional (TIC), which is accompanied resistivity changes (more than 4 × 109 times) reversibly through tuning temperature few seconds introduced....
Internally triggered motion of an object owns important potential in diverse application areas ranging from micromachines, actuator or sensor, to self-assembly superstructures. A new conceptual liquid metal machine style has been presented here: the transient state that can work as either a large size robot, partial running elements, just divide spontaneously swarm tiny motors. According need, discrete droplet machines quickly generated through injecting stream combine back again original...
Most of the existing robots would find it difficult to stretch and transform all parts their body together due rigid components complex actuation mechanisms inside. Here, we presented a highly transformable liquid-metal composite (LMC) that is easy change shape in large magnitude resume its original state again according need. When subject heating, part ethanol droplets embedded phase then actuate. We demonstrate flexible transformation LMC-made octopus from two-dimensional into several...
The deformation capability of a robot has been long-term research interest in robotic fields along with developing its controllability and adaptability.
A highly stretchable and conformable strain sensor fabricated by Ni-doped liquid metal (Ni-GaIn) is designed to record reconstruct human motion at elbow, knee, heel even fingers realize multifunctional human-activity monitoring. The new electronic ink of Ni-GaIn directly rapidly printed onto luminous soft substrate manufacture with excellent stable electrical properties. Composed the sensors, system demonstrated work well as human-machine interface, which integrates various functions...
J. Liu and co-workers demonstrate on page 2648, a self-powered soft liquid metal robot that can “eat” aluminum food then move spontaneously swiftly in various solution environments structured channels for more than one hour. Such biomimetic mollusk is highly shape-adaptive by deforming itself to the geometrical space it voyages in. This unusual behavior closely resembles of living organisms nature.
In surgery, orthopedic cast is often implemented to stabilize and fix anatomical structures like broken bones. Plaster could harden after mixed with water, thus it commonly utilized cotton bandage form a solid structure encase limb or other body parts. As plaster heavy impervious, easily result in itching, rashes, allergic contact dermatitis cutaneous complications. this paper we present novel implementation for surgical fixation low melting point alloy (LMPA) stuffed silicone tubes, which...
A transient state machine is demonstrated by J. Liu and co-workers based on findings the generation, collision, bouncing, adhesion, or coalescence phenomena of self-powered liquid-metal droplet motors. On page 5253, it shown that such transformable machines could switch among different working configurations as single robot, separate moving elements, a swarm autonomously running The reversible, tremendous discrete injected from source recombine to their original state.
Micro motors that could run in liquid environment is very important for a variety of practices such as serving pipeline robot, soft machine, drug delivery, or microfluidics system etc. However, fabrication tiny generally rather time and cost consumptive has been tough issue due to involve too many complicated procedures tools. Here, we show straightforward injectable way spontaneously generating autonomously running large quantity. A basic strategy thus enabled established illustrated. It...