Directional transport of fluids is crucial for vital activities of organisms and numerous
industrial applications. This process has garnered widespread research attention due to the …

Gallium-based liquid metals have gained plenty of attention in the scientific community due
to their extraordinary properties. The most intriguing properties of liquid metals are high …

Controlling surface wettability and directing the flow of working fluids have crucial
implications in various natural and engineering contexts. Understanding the fundamental …

A key challenge underlying the design of miniature machines is encoding materials with
time‐and space‐specific functional behaviors that require little human intervention …

The unique properties to combine the dual merits of both liquids and metals together make
the gallium‐based liquid metal (LM) droplets a class of unconventional substitute which …

Over the past decade, remotely powered micro actuators have gained increased attention
for biomedical and environmental remediation applications, owing to their ability to access …

We investigated oscillatory motion of a camphor disk floating on water containing 5 mM
hexylethylenediaminium trifluoroacetate (HHexen-TFA) as an ionic liquid (IL). The frequency …

Taxis is ubiquitous in biological and physical chemistry systems as a response to various
external stimulations. We prepared aqueous droplets containing Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) …

We studied the self-propulsion of a camphor disk floating on a water surface using two types
of ionic liquids (hexylammonium-trifluoroacetate (HHexam-TFA) and …

Nanofibers have become a promising material in many industries in recent years, mainly
due to their various properties. The only disadvantage of nanofibers as a potential filtration …