A palm-sized robot has been made with a drop of liquid metal in a plastic wheel. The robot’s wheel rolls when the liquid metal changes the center of gravity, which is controlled by altering the ...

“Moreover, the vertically stretched MLMD (magnetic liquid metal droplet) can move horizontally with its half body in the solution and the other half in the air, which resembles the nature of an ...

Currently, a drop of liquid metal has enough power to move around for 30 minutes to an hour. Nanotechnology could be used to build the embedded control system, sensors and computers for any liquid ...

A liquid metal droplet as the core of a continuous flow reactor for both chemical reaction and mass transport. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

More information: T. Chang et al, Millimeter-wave electromagnetic monitoring for liquid metal droplet-on-demand printing, Journal of Applied Physics (2021). DOI: 10.1063/5.0065989.

Ionic liquids can switch the state of a metal oxide from conducting to insulating and back again, something that could be useful for computer processing and memory. With a drop of liquid, IBM ...

Researchers led by a team at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to create tiny droplets of one liquid inside another liquid without mixing the two together.

Liquid metal jetting (LMJ) is a new technology showing promise for improved speed, cost, and safety of metal AM, thus opening the doors to broader industrial adoption. LMJ is still a very young ...

Scientists have developed a liquid metal that is able to stretch horizontally and vertically, as well as change shapes, much like the T-1000 robot featured in 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day.' ...