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 …

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 …

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 …

Liquid metal patterning and unique properties for next‐generation soft electronics

M Kim, H Lim, SH Ko - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Room‐temperature liquid metal (LM)‐based electronics is expected to bring advancements
in future soft electronics owing to its conductivity, conformability, stretchability, and …

Liquid metal composites with enhanced thermal conductivity and stability using molecular thermal linker

H Wang, W Xing, S Chen, C Song… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gallium‐based liquid metal (LM) composite with metallic fillers is an emerging class of
thermal interface materials (TIMs), which are widely applied in electronics and power …

Wetting effect on patterned substrates

F Wang, Y Wu, B Nestler - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A droplet deposited on a solid substrate leads to the wetting phenomenon. A natural
observation is the lotus effect, known for its superhydrophobicity. This special feature is …

Gallium‐based liquid metals for lithium‐ion batteries

BW Zhang, L Ren, YX Wang, X Xu, Y Du… - Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) are one of the most exciting inventions of the 20th century and
have been widely employed in modern society. LIBs have powered many of our electronics …

Imbibition-induced selective wetting of liquid metal

JH Kim, S Kim, H Kim, S Wooh, J Cho… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Herein, we present the imbibition-induced, spontaneous, and selective wetting
characteristics of gallium-based liquid metal alloys on a metallized surface with micro-scale …

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 …

Tailorable, lightweight and superelastic liquid metal monoliths for multifunctional electromagnetic interference shielding

Y Xu, Z Lin, K Rajavel, T Zhao, P Zhu, Y Hu, R Sun… - Nano-micro letters, 2022 - Springer
Highlights A confined thermal expansion strategy to fabricate liquid metal (LM)-based
monoliths with continuous LM network at ultra-low content. The results show a strong …