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 …

Smart eutectic gallium–indium: from properties to applications

Z Zhao, S Soni, T Lee, CA Nijhuis… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with a melting point close to or
below room temperature, has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its …

Hydrogel machines

X Liu, J Liu, S Lin, X Zhao - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
As polymer networks infiltrated with water, hydrogels constitute the major components of the
human body; and hydrogels have been widely used in applications that closely interact with …

[HTML][HTML] Gallium liquid metal: the devil's elixir

SY Tang, C Tabor, K Kalantar-Zadeh… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Gallium is a metal that literally melts in your hand. It has low toxicity, near-zero vapor
pressure, and a viscosity similar to water. Despite possessing a surface tension larger than …

Materials and structures toward soft electronics

C Wang, C Wang, Z Huang, S Xu - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Soft electronics are intensively studied as the integration of electronics with dynamic
nonplanar surfaces has become necessary. Here, a discussion of the strategies in materials …

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 …

Nature-inspired structural materials for flexible electronic devices

Y Liu, K He, G Chen, WR Leow, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

Hybrid 3D printing of soft electronics

AD Valentine, TA Busbee, JW Boley… - advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid 3D printing is a new method for producing soft electronics that combines direct ink
writing of conductive and dielectric elastomeric materials with automated pick‐and‐place of …

Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes (BSANM) have been explored
extensively to achieve the delicate ionic transport functions comparable to those of living …

Liquid metal enabled microfluidics

K Khoshmanesh, SY Tang, JY Zhu, S Schaefer… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Several gallium-based liquid metal alloys are liquid at room temperature. As 'liquid', such
alloys have a low viscosity and a high surface tension while as 'metal', they have high …