On the Mechanism of Oscillations in the “Beating Mercury Heart”

AUTOR(ES)

Lin, Shu-Wai

RESUMO

The discovery of a class of electrochemical-mechanical oscillators—similar to the beating mercury heart -are reported and characterized. Chemical and physical effects on the voltage-time oscillations in these systems have been measured and a mechanism consistent with these effects is given. Interesting cross-catalytic effects involving the electrocapillarity of mercury are proposed to be the origin of the oscillations in these systems.

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