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 …

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 …

Nature-inspired structural materials for flexible electronic devices

Y Liu, K He, G Chen, WR Leow, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes (BSANM) have been explored
extensively to achieve the delicate ionic transport functions comparable to those of living …

A Liquid Metal Microdroplets Initialized Hemicellulose Composite for 3D Printing Anode Host in Zn‐Ion Battery

G Shi, X Peng, J Zeng, L Zhong, Y Sun… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Maintaining a steady affinity between gallium‐based liquid metals (LM) and polymer
binders, particularly under continuous mechanical deformation, such as extrusion‐based 3D …

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 …

Stretchable ionics–a promising candidate for upcoming wearable devices

HR Lee, CC Kim, JY Sun - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As many devices for human utility aim for fast and convenient communication with users,
superb electronic devices are demonstrated to serve as hardware for human–machine …