Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Basics about Soft Machine and Robot
1.2 Classical Soft Robotic Actuation and Sensing
1.2.1 Traditional motor or hydraulic driving
1.2.2 Flexible artificial muscle
1.2.3 Robot-computer interaction and cooperative control of machine and material
1.3 Rise of Liquid Metals for Soft Robotics
1.4 Merits of Liquid Metal as Soft Electronic Materials
1.5 Robotic Roles of Liquid Metals
1.5.1 Actuation and power source
1.5.2 Sensing
1.5.3 Controlling
1.6 Implementations of Liquid Metals in Soft Robotic System
1.6.1 Biomimetic soft robot
1.6.2 Intelligent manipulations
1.6.3 Micromachine and micromotor
1.6.4 Liquid metal transformable humanoid robots
1.7 Summary
References
Chapter 2 Liquid Integrated Soft Robotics and Electronics
2.1 I-LIFE Soft Robotic System Inspired by Nature
2.2 Robotic Roles of Intelligent Liquid in Nature and Artificially Made Systems
2.2.1 The relationship between intelligent liquid and locomotion
2.2.2 Efficient distributed energy system with I-LIFE
2.2.3 Potential role of liquid to tune physical performance of I-LIFE
2.2.4 Sensory system with intelligent liquid participation
2.2.5 Intelligence system with liquid participation
2.3 Candidates of Liquids for Making Future Soft Robots
2.3.1 Water as intelligent material
2.3.2 Magnetorheological fluid
2.3.3 Liquid metals
2.3.4 Ionic liquids
2.4 Liquid Metal Enabled Droplet Circuits
2.5 Liquid Metal Soft Logic Devices
2.5.1 Soft logic
2.5.2 Liquid metal switch
2.5.3 Soft logic gates based on LMSs
2.5.4 Soft four-degree logic accumulator based on LMSs
2.6 Autonomous Liquid Metal Electronic Controller
2.6.1 Liquid metal droplet DC-AC converter
2.6.2 Liquid metal droplet resonant unit
2.6.3 The LMEO circuit
2.6.4 Resonant frequency
2.6.5 Duty cycle
2.6.6 Application of the LMEO
2.7 Challenges in Theoretical and Technological Issues to Develop I-LIFE
2.7.1 Controllable flow in complex circulation networks
2.7.2 Effective interaction between liquid and functional body
2.8 Summary
References
Chapter 3 Preparation of Liquid Metal Electronic Materials
3.1 Liquid Metals and Alloy Electronic Inks
3.2 Liquid Metal Composite Materials
3.3 Fabrication of Micro/Nano Liquid Metal Droplets
3.4 Liquid Metal Composite Materials with Core-Shell Structure
3.5 Liquid Metal-Polymer Composites Materials
3.6 Liquid Metal-Particle Composites Materials
3.7 Liquid Metal Composites Based on Multiple Strategies
3.8 Porous Liquid Metal Electronic Materials
3.9 Electronically Induced Iridescent Liquid Metals
3.10 General Colorful Liquid Metals
3.11 Hydrochromic Liquid Metals
3.12 Summary
References
Chapter 4 Soft Properties of Liquid Metal Electronic Materials
4.1 Softness as New Dimension to Characterize Matter
4.2 Liquid Metal Transformers or Motors
4.3 Thermal Dynamic Behaviors of Liquid Metals
4.4 Hydrodynamic Properties of Liquid Metals
4.5 Direct Writing and Stretchable Properties of Liquid Metal Electronics
4.6 Tunable Adhesion of Liquid Metal Inks
4.7 Magnetic Properties of Liquid Metals
4.8 Chemical Properties of Liquid Metals
4.9 Semiconducting Properties of Processed Liquid Metal
4.10 Interfacial Properties of Liquid Metals
4.11 Summary
References
Chapter 5 Liquid Metal Printing to Fabricate Soft Electronics
5.1 Emergence of Liquid Metal Printed Soft Electronics
5.2 Direct Writing of Liquid Metal Electronics
5.3 Automatic Electronics Printing via Liquid Metal Printer
5.4 Typical Applications of Liquid Metal Printed Electronics
5.5 Industrialization of Liquid Metal Printers
5.6 Developing Perspective of Liquid Metal Printed Electronics
5.7 Summary
References
Chapter 6 Liquid Metal Printed 3D Soft
