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 …

Liquid metal combinatorics toward materials discovery

D Wang, J Ye, Y Bai, F Yang, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metals and their derivatives provide several opportunities for fundamental and
practical exploration worldwide. However, the increasing number of studies and shortage of …

Materials, structure, and interface of stretchable interconnects for wearable bioelectronics

Y Li, A Veronica, J Ma, HYY Nyein - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Since wearable technologies for telemedicine have emerged to tackle global health
concerns, the demand for well‐attested wearable healthcare devices with high user comfort …

Controllable flow and manipulation of liquid metals

Y He, J You, MD Dickey, X Wang - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes the controllable flow and manipulation of gallium‐based liquid
metals (eg, eutectic gallium indium, EGaIn). There are generally only a few ways to handle …

Are contact angle measurements useful for oxide-coated liquid metals?

ID Joshipura, KA Persson, VK Truong, JH Oh, M Kong… - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
This work establishes that static contact angles for gallium-based liquid metals have no
utility despite the continued and common use of such angles in the literature. In the …

Liquid metal droplets enabled soft robots

L Zheng, S Handschuh‐Wang, Z Ye, B Wang - Applied Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robots have attracted significant interest due to their suitability for applications in a
variety of engineering and biomedical applications. Particularly, fluid-based soft robots, such …

The Liquid Metal Age: A Transition From Hg to Ga

S Handschuh‐Wang, T Wang, T Gancarz… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review offers an illuminating journey through the historical evolution and modern‐day
applications of liquid metals, presenting a comprehensive view of their significance in …

Thermal transfer-enabled rapid printing of liquid metal circuits on multiple substrates

R Guo, T Li, Z Wu, C Wan, J Niu, W Huo… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Low-cost, rapid patterning of liquid metal on various substrates is a key processing step for
liquid metal-based soft electronics. Current patterning methods rely on expensive equipment …

Textile‐based stretchable supercapacitors with liquid metal current collectors

MY Choi, JH Kim, SK Kim, HJ Koo… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Stretchable supercapacitors (SCs) have attracted attention as energy storage devices for
wearable electronics due to their excellent power performance, low heat generation, and …