Biomimetics using liquid metals

Mimicking biotissues has proven challenging due to novel materials required for intricate rhythms. Utilizing water and liquid metals, Gao et al. mimic biotissues’ rhythmic changes, holding potential to emulate natural systems and enabling biomimetic functions like heartbeats, respiration, and nerve impulses. Mimicking biotissues has proven challenging due to novel materials required for intricate rhythms. Utilizing water and liquid metals, Gao et al. mimic biotissues’ rhythmic changes, holding potential to emulate natural systems and enabling biomimetic functions like heartbeats, respiration, and nerve impulses. Biotissue-like rhythmic hydrous liquid-metal agglomeratesGao et al.MatterJuly 27, 2023In BriefHydrous liquid-metal agglomerates composed of water and bottom-up-assembled liquid metals are created and disclosed to be able to imitate intriguing biological rhythmic activities and display diverse capabilities. Systematic experiments demonstrate the unique virtues of such liquid matters in constructing biorhythms via their endowed aqueous environmental features and higher spatiotemporal dimension attributes. The rhythm synergy of the hydrous liquid-metal agglomerates is disclosed to be dependent on matter variation, electro-chemical energy conversion, and information transfer. Full-Text PDF