Scientists create a liquid metal that behaves like the Terminator – 20/03/2019

A group of Chinese scientists has managed to create a metal who behaves in one way similar at T-1000, the terrible killer robot played by Robert Patrick in terminator.

The material, of course, is far from having the complex machines this requires a robot like that of the movie with Arnold Schwarzeneggerbut it can be handled with magnets and the habit of complete circuits. Its developers, even, bet that one day they can be created robots similar to living organisms.

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The American Chemical Society has released a video on the metal in action, in addition to an article titled "Magnetic Liquid Metals Handled in Three-dimensional Free Space". The project was carried out by scientists from Beihang University in China.

The researchers added iron particles to a drop of alloy of gallium, indium and tin immersed in hydrochloric acid, indicates the report.

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"A layer of gallium oxide formed on the surface of the drop reduces the surface tension of the liquid metal," says the text, stating that this is what allows stretch and move without breaking.

"The vertically stretched material can move horizontally with half a body in the solution and the other half in the air, which looks like the nature of a amphibian that works right, "says the study.

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Because of its attractive properties, this material constitutes a "fundamental and promising" platform for liquid metals in order to further develop multifunctional performance in free space and, finally, to lead "to smart soft robots and biomimetic dynamically reconfigurable in the future ".

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