Liquid metal enabled pump

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3304-3309

  Tang, Shi Yang ^a   Khoshmanesh, Khashayar ^a   Sivan, Vijay ^a   Petersen, Phred ^a   O'Mullane, Anthony P ^a,b   Abbott, Derek ^c   Mitchell, Arnan ^a   Kalantar Zadeh, Kourosh ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROWETTING; FLOW; FLOW RATE; LIQUID; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP;

ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; METALS, HEAVY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84895785791     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319878111     Document Type: Article

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