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A drop of liquid metal sits inside a soft channel. Add a small voltage and its surface tension shifts right at the boundary. A 2026 Advanced Functional Materials paper found that boundary shift is enough to amplify the flow the droplet can drive, no extra moving parts.

Prototype physics on one EGaIn system, not finished hardware. Paper: Electrocapillary Modulated Interfacial Tension Amplifies Liquid Metal Transduction (Advanced Functional Materials, June 2026, DOI 10.1002/adfm.76397). Scollr paper scan. #MaterialsScience #LiquidMetal #SoftRobotics #Microfluidics

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