Liquid Metal Soft Machines

Introduction.- Softness: Another Dimension to Define Nature.- Conventional Soft Machine and Allied Materials.- Basic Properties of Liquid Metal Materials and Soft Matter.- Mechanically Enabled Transformation of Liquid Metal.- Electrically Induced Transformations of Liquid Metal.- SCHEME based Reversible Transformation of Liquid Metal.- Electromagnetic Induced Transformation of Liquid Metal.- Self Fueled Shape Changeable Liquid Metal Machines.- Self Powered Liquid Metal Droplet Motors.- Liquid Metal Based Transient State Machine.- Directional Control of Self Fueled Liquid Metal Machine.- Breathing Enabled Liquid Metal Machine.- Nanoparticles Enabled Liquid Metal Machine.- Substrate Enabled Liquid Metal Machine.- Hybrid Machine Composed of Liquid Metal and Rigid Structure.- Liquid Metal Wheeled 3D Printed Vehicle.

Jing Liu received his double bachelor's degrees (B.E. in Power Engineering and Control and B.S. in Physics) in 1992, and Ph.D. in Thermal Science with specialty on Bioengineering in 1996, all from Tsinghua University. He then served as assistant professor there, a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University, and a senior visiting scholar at MIT. He has been a professor of Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since July 1999 and a professor of Tsinghua University since August 2008. Dr. Liu works intensively at the interdisciplinary areas among biomedical engineering, mobile health care technology, liquid metal and thermal science. He has made significant contributions to the bioheat transfer area through numerous conceptual innovation, methodology development and technical inventions. Quite a few of his inventions have been translated into clinical uses. Dr. Liu pioneered a group of nonconventional technologies and fundamental scientific discoveries through introducing the room temperature liquid metals into rather diverse areas which successfully initiated many new directions in biomedical engineering, soft machine, chip cooling, advanced manufacture and energy area etc. Among them, his work in adopting liquid metal to electrically connect the severed nerves was especially attributed as "most amazing medical breakthroughs".

Zhi-Zhu He is an Associate Professor at the Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cryo-Biomedical Engineering, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his Ph.D. degree in Thermal Science with specialty in Bioengineering in 2010. He then served as an Assistant Professor there, and become Associate Professor since 2016. He has published 20 peer reviewed journal articles. He works intensively at liquid metal and its wide application in heat transfer and soft machine.He has developed an easy way to generate