Visualizing unleashed latent heat of liquid metal for soft intelligence

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52301193 and 91748206), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2021M691707), and the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (No. DE220100816).

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interest.

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