Bansal, Shubhi;
Tokuda, Yutaka;
Peasley, Jonathon;
Subramanian, Sriram;
(2022)
Electrically Induced Liquid Metal Droplet Bouncing.
Langmuir
10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00577.
(In press).
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Abstract
Liquid metals, including eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn), have been explored for various planar droplet operations, including droplet splitting and merging, promoting their use in emerging areas such as flexible electronics and soft robotics. However, three-dimensional (3D) droplet operations, including droplet bouncing, have mostly been limited to nonmetallic liquids or aqueous solutions. This is the first study of liquid metal droplet bouncing using continuous AC electrowetting through an analytical model, computational fluid dynamics simulation, and empirical validation to the best of our knowledge. We achieved liquid metal droplet bouncing with a height greater than 5 mm with an actuation voltage of less than 10 V and a frequency of less than 5 Hz. We compared the bouncing trajectories of the liquid metal droplet for different actuation parameters. We found that the jumping height of the droplet increases as the frequency of the applied AC voltage decreases and its amplitude increases until the onset of instability. Furthermore, we model the attenuation dynamics of consecutive bouncing cycles of the underdamped droplet bouncing system. This study embarks on controlling liquid metal droplet bouncing electrically, thereby opening a plethora of new opportunities utilizing 3D liquid metal droplet operations for numerous applications such as energy harvesting, heat transfer, and radio frequency (RF) switching.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Electrically Induced Liquid Metal Droplet Bouncing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00577 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00577 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149391 |
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