Shaping a soft future: patterning liquid metals

J Ma, F Krisnadi, MH Vong, M Kong… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review highlights the unique techniques for patterning liquid metals containing gallium
(eg, eutectic gallium indium, EGaIn). These techniques are enabled by two unique attributes …

Stretchable electronics based on PDMS substrates

D Qi, K Zhang, G Tian, B Jiang, Y Huang - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stretchable electronics, which can retain their functions under stretching, have attracted
great interest in recent decades. Elastic substrates, which bear the applied strain and …

Wafer-patterned, permeable, and stretchable liquid metal microelectrodes for implantable bioelectronics with chronic biocompatibility

Q Zhuang, K Yao, M Wu, Z Lei, F Chen, J Li, Q Mei… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Implantable bioelectronics provide unprecedented opportunities for real-time and
continuous monitoring of physiological signals of living bodies. Most bioelectronics adopt …

An autonomously electrically self-healing liquid metal–elastomer composite for robust soft-matter robotics and electronics

EJ Markvicka, MD Bartlett, X Huang, C Majidi - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Large-area stretchable electronics are critical for progress in wearable computing, soft
robotics and inflatable structures. Recent efforts have focused on engineering electronics …

Materials and structural designs of stretchable conductors

N Matsuhisa, X Chen, Z Bao, T Someya - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Stretchable conductors are essential building blocks for stretchable electronic devices used
in next-generation wearables and soft robotics. Over 10 years of research in stretchable …

Attributes, fabrication, and applications of gallium‐based liquid metal particles

Y Lin, J Genzer, MD Dickey - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work discusses the attributes, fabrication methods, and applications of gallium‐based
liquid metal particles. Gallium‐based liquid metals combine metallic and fluidic properties at …

Highly stretchable polymer composite with strain‐enhanced electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness

B Yao, W Hong, T Chen, Z Han, X Xu, R Hu… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer composites with electrically conductive fillers have been developed as
mechanically flexible, easily processable electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding …

Stretchable and soft electronics using liquid metals

MD Dickey - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The use of liquid metals based on gallium for soft and stretchable electronics is discussed.
This emerging class of electronics is motivated, in part, by the new opportunities that arise …

Highly stretchable, self-adhesive, biocompatible, conductive hydrogels as fully polymeric strain sensors

D Zhang, Y Tang, Y Zhang, F Yang, Y Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Development of highly stretchable and sensitive soft strain sensors is of great importance for
broad applications in artificial intelligence, wearable devices, and soft robotics, but it proved …

Liquid metal direct write and 3D printing: a review

TV Neumann, MD Dickey - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This review discusses methods, challenges, and opportunities for direct‐write and 3D
printing of low melting point, gallium‐based liquid metal alloys at room temperature. Alloys …