Versatile Movements of Liquid Metal Droplet under Electrostatic Actuation in Alkaline Solutions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Theory
2.1. Experimental Design and Chip Fabrication
2.2. Continuous Electrowetting Actuation
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Effect of Electrolyte Concentration
3.2. Effect of Voltage Amplitude of Applied Electric Field
3.3. Effect of Galinstan Liquid Metal Volume
3.4. Effect of the Frequency of Alternating Current Electrical Field
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Hu, Q.; Jiang, T.; Jiang, H. Versatile Movements of Liquid Metal Droplet under Electrostatic Actuation in Alkaline Solutions. Materials 2020, 13, 2122. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13092122
Hu Q, Jiang T, Jiang H. Versatile Movements of Liquid Metal Droplet under Electrostatic Actuation in Alkaline Solutions. Materials. 2020; 13(9):2122. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13092122
Chicago/Turabian StyleHu, Qingming, Tianyi Jiang, and Hongyuan Jiang. 2020. "Versatile Movements of Liquid Metal Droplet under Electrostatic Actuation in Alkaline Solutions" Materials 13, no. 9: 2122. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13092122