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 …

Low melting point alloys enabled stiffness tunable advanced materials

Y Hao, J Gao, Y Lv, J Liu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stiffness tunable advanced materials have demonstrated their superiority and versatility in
diverse areas, while the global pursuit of reversible, intelligent, and fast response for …

Liquid metal composites

S Chen, HZ Wang, RQ Zhao, W Rao, J Liu - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
Liquid metal (LM) with high electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, excellent
biocompatibility, and extraordinary fluidity has emerged as a promising class of functional …

On‐demand programming of liquid metal‐composite microstructures through direct ink write 3D printing

A Haake, R Tutika, GM Schloer, MD Bartlett… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft, elastically deformable composites with liquid metal (LM) droplets can enable new
generations of soft electronics, robotics, and reconfigurable structures. However, techniques …

Phase transition science and engineering of gallium-based liquid metal

H Wang, S Chen, X Zhu, B Yuan, X Sun, J Zhang… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Phase transition between liquid and solid is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and has
been used widely in scientific and industrial communities. Most metals have high melting …

Liquid metal–based soft microfluidics

L Zhu, B Wang, S Handschuh‐Wang, X Zhou - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by the increasing demand of wearable and soft electronics, liquid metal (LM)‐
based microfluidics has been subjected to tremendous development in the past decade …

Liquid metal fibers

H Wang, R Li, Y Cao, S Chen, B Yuan, X Zhu… - Advanced Fiber …, 2022 - Springer
Liquid metal (LM) is a type of metal or alloy that has a low melting point near room
temperature and exhibits the properties of both liquids and metals. Such unconventional …

Segregated and non‐settling liquid metal elastomer via jamming of elastomeric particles

X Xue, D Zhang, Y Wu, R Xing, H Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metal elastomer (LME)—that is, liquid metal particles dispersed in elastomer—is a
soft material that has useful electric, dielectric, and thermal properties. Two issues with LME …

Mechanoresponsive self-growing hydrogels inspired by muscle training

T Matsuda, R Kawakami, R Namba, T Nakajima… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Living tissues, such as muscle, autonomously grow and remodel themselves to adapt to
their surrounding mechanical environment through metabolic processes. By contrast, typical …

Liquid metal smart materials toward soft robotics

S Chen, HZ Wang, TY Liu, J Liu - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike conventional rigid machines, soft robots generally have unique operation styles that
rely heavily on soft matter engineering and smart material systems. Owing to the superior …