Liquid Metal Machine Triggered Violin-Like Wire Oscillator

Adv Sci (Weinh). 2016 Aug 17;3(10):1600212. doi: 10.1002/advs.201600212. eCollection 2016 Oct.

Abstract

The first ever oscillation phenomenon of a copper wire embraced inside a self-powered liquid metal machine is discovered. When contacting a copper wire to liquid metal machine, it would be swallowed inside and then reciprocally moves back and forth, just like a violin bow. Such oscillation could be easily regulated by touching a steel needle on the liquid metal surface.

Keywords: hybrid structures; liquid metal machines; self‐actuation; wetting; wire oscillators.