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Recently, graphene liquid has been considered for various applications because of its affordability, excellent conductivity, flexibility, transparency, and easy processing. This paper presents a beam-reconfigurable graphene liquid antenna. The movement of the graphene liquid within the microfluidic channel enables beam reconfiguration. The antenna is realized in a rectangular microfluidic channel made of polymethyl methacrylate over a liquid crystal polymer substrate. The proposed antenna performs beam-steering up to <jats:inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"m1\"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mn>360<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:msup><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math><\/jats:inline-formula> with 7 dBi of gain and operates at 28\u00a0GHz with a wideband of 10-dB impedance bandwidth of over 20%. In particular, the main beam of the antenna reconfigures into six directions (<jats:inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"m2\"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mn>0<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:msup><mml:mo>,<\/mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mn>45<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:msup><mml:mo>,<\/mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mn>135<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:msup><mml:mo>,<\/mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mn>180<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:msup><mml:mo>,<\/mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mn>225<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:msup><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math><\/jats:inline-formula> and <jats:inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"m3\"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mn>315<\/mml:mn><mml:mo>\u00b0<\/mml:mo><\/mml:msup><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:math><\/jats:inline-formula>)at the operating frequency. Moreover, the antenna offers a consistent reflection coefficient at 28\u00a0GHz in each of the six reconfigurable frequencies. 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