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 …

Electrochemical synthesis of photoelectrodes and catalysts for use in solar water splitting

D Kang, TW Kim, SR Kubota, AC Cardiel… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
This review focuses on introducing and explaining electrodepostion mechanisms and
electrodeposition-based synthesis strategies used for the production of catalysts and …

Liquid metals in catalysis for energy applications

K Zuraiqi, A Zavabeti, FM Allioux, J Tang, CK Nguyen… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
To keep up with the fast-paced transitioning of the global energy sector, which is constantly
thriving to enable reliable, economic, and sustainable energy production, catalysis research …

Emerging applications of liquid metals featuring surface oxides

MD Dickey - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2014 - ACS Publications
Gallium and several of its alloys are liquid metals at or near room temperature. Gallium has
low toxicity, essentially no vapor pressure, and a low viscosity. Despite these desirable …

Enabling silicon for solar-fuel production

K Sun, S Shen, Y Liang, PE Burrows, SS Mao… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
After over 150 years of exploiting fossil fuels, nowadays humans are encountering two great
global problems: the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the expected …

Nanoscale electrodeposition: Dimension control and 3D conformality

SA Lee, JW Yang, S Choi, HW Jang - Exploration, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrodeposition with a long history has been considered one of the important synthesis
techniques for applying various applications. It is a feasible route for fabricating …

Electrodeposition of crystalline silicon films from silicon dioxide for low-cost photovoltaic applications

X Zou, L Ji, J Ge, DR Sadoway, ET Yu… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Crystalline-silicon solar cells have dominated the photovoltaics market for the past several
decades. One of the long standing challenges is the large contribution of silicon wafer cost …

The importance of new “sand-to-silicon” processes for the rapid future increase of photovoltaics

S Maldonado - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
(PVs) installed on this planet, the largest value in recorded human history. 1 Simultaneously,
the total global power consumption surpassed 18 TW, 2 also the largest ever value to date …

Role of chemisorbing species in growth at liquid metal-electrolyte interfaces revealed by in situ X-ray scattering

A Sartori, RP Giri, H Fujii, SC Hövelmann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid-liquid interfaces offer intriguing possibilities for nanomaterials growth. Here,
fundamental interface-related mechanisms that control the growth behavior in these systems …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid gallium and the eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn) alloy: Dielectric functions from 1.24 to 3.1 eV by electrochemical reduction of surface oxides

D Morales, NA Stoute, Z Yu, DE Aspnes… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid metals based on gallium are promising materials for soft, stretchable, and shape
reconfigurable electromagnetic devices. The behavior of these metals relates directly to the …