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 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 …

Interfacial tension modulation of liquid metal via electrochemical oxidation

M Song, KE Daniels, A Kiani… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, this progress report summarizes recent studies of electrochemical oxidation to
modulate the interfacial tension of gallium‐based alloys. These liquid alloys have the largest …

Pattern-reconfigurable Yagi–Uda antenna based on liquid metal

J Hao, J Ren, X Du, JH Mikkelsen… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A pattern-reconfigurable Yagi–Uda antenna based on liquid metal is presented. The
antenna consists of a balun-fed active dipole and a pair of stretchable passive parasitic …

Interfacing of surfaces with gallium-based liquid metals–approaches for mitigation and augmentation of liquid metal adhesion on surfaces

S Handschuh-Wang, L Zhu, T Gan, T Wang… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gallium-based liquid metals (GLMs) are an emerging class of materials owing to their
intrinsic flexibility and intriguing conductivity and have therefore been applied in a wide …

Reconfigurable liquid metal-based SIW phase shifter

S Alkaraki, AL Borja, JR Kelly… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the first substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) phase shifter that can be
reconfigured using liquid metal (LM). This digital phase shifter exhibits low insertion loss and …

Metallophobic coatings to enable shape reconfigurable liquid metal inside 3D printed plastics

J Ma, VT Bharambe, KA Persson… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Liquid metals adhere to most surfaces despite their high surface tension due to the presence
of a native gallium oxide layer. The ability to change the shape of functional fluids within a …

3D-printed low-profile single-substrate multi-metal layer antennas and array with bandwidth enhancement

M Li, Y Yang, F Iacopi, J Nulman… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a few single-substrate multi-metal layer antennas using additively
manufactured electronics (AME) solution based on piezoelectric additive fabrication. By …

Phased array antenna system enabled by liquid metal phase shifters

S Alkaraki, QW Lin, JR Kelly, Z Wang, H Wong - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a proof of concept design for the first phased array antenna design
enabled by liquid metal (LM) technology. The proposed LM phased array antenna system is …

An On‐Chip Liquid Metal Plug Generator

S Bhagwat, C O'Brien, A Hamza, S Sharma… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Gallium‐based liquid metal nonspherical droplets (plugs) have seen increasing demand
recently mainly because their high aspect ratios make them beneficial for a wide range of …