Liquid metal motor in action. Photo Credit: Gizmodo.com
A recent article published in Nature describes experiments that involve a special alloy of metal that is liquid at close to room temperatures. This alloy interacts with a surrounding fluid, usually water allowing it to propel itself. It is a huge feat, motion before has come from some form of external manipulations of magnetic fields, as in electric motors, or forced changes in pressure, as in hydraulics. This self moving metal can create motion on a much smaller scale leading to even smaller devices. Imagine a small camera that can zip through your bloodstream and sweep up any bad cholesterol lying around or guide a surgeon’s knife in a life saving procedure.
Read more here: http://gizmodo.com/this-liquid-metal-motor-moves-under-its-own-power-1690736185
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