Overview
- Introduces a new soft robot era using liquid metals
- Describes the revolutionary materials that are reshaping modern machine science
- Discusses the new generation materials that offer solutions to create the ultimate human-like robot
Part of the book series: Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (TMMME)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Zhi-Zhu He is an Associate Professor at the Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cryo-Biomedical Engineering, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his Ph.D. degree in Thermal Science with specialty in Bioengineering in 2010. He then served as an Assistant Professor there, and become Associate Professor since 2016. He has published 20 peer reviewed journal articles. He works intensively at liquid metal and its wide application in heat transfer and soft machine.He has developed an easy way to generate liquid metal droplets in large quantity, which is important from both fundamental and practical aspects. In addition, he has investigated the transient state machine enabled from colliding and coalescence of a swarm of autonomously running liquid metal motors.
Lei Sheng is an Assistant Professor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his B.E. degree in biomedical engineering in 2007 from Hefei University of Technology and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 2013 from Beijing University of Technology, then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Tsinghua University until 2016. Dr. Sheng’s research interests include liquid metal based soft robots, sensors and other applications of liquid metal used in biomedical field. He has being taken charge of doctoral science foundation and participated in a number of National Natural Science Foundation of China and Beijing Natural Science Foundation. His representative papers were published in Advanced Materials, Small, Scientific Reports and other academic publications. Related research achievements were reported by FOX News, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, CCTV News, the front page of Science China Daily (4 times) and Tsinghua News.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Liquid Metal Soft Machines
Book Subtitle: Principles and Applications
Authors: Jing Liu, Lei Sheng, Zhi-Zhu He
Series Title: Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2709-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2708-7Published: 27 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4802-0Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2709-4Published: 19 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-3293
Series E-ISSN: 2364-3307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 372
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 181 illustrations in colour
Topics: Metallic Materials, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation, Machinery and Machine Elements, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Engineering Fluid Dynamics