Eutectics: formation, properties, and applications

D Yu, Z Xue, T Mu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Various eutectic systems have been proposed and studied over the past few decades. Most
of the studies have focused on three typical types of eutectics: eutectic metals, eutectic salts …

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 …

Liquid metal combinatorics toward materials discovery

D Wang, J Ye, Y Bai, F Yang, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metals and their derivatives provide several opportunities for fundamental and
practical exploration worldwide. However, the increasing number of studies and shortage of …

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 …

Liquid metal based soft robotics: materials, designs, and applications

X Wang, R Guo, J Liu - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging classes of soft robotics with flexible actuation, intelligent sensibility, and
biomimetic functionality are driving significant advances in academic researches and …

Liquid metal actuators: a comparative analysis of surface tension controlled actuation

J Liao, C Majidi, M Sitti - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metals, with their unique combination of electrical and mechanical properties, offer
great opportunities for actuation based on surface tension modulation. Thanks to the scaling …

Portable and wearable self-powered systems based on emerging energy harvesting technology

C Xu, Y Song, M Han, H Zhang - Microsystems & nanoengineering, 2021 - nature.com
A self-powered system based on energy harvesting technology can be a potential candidate
for solving the problem of supplying power to electronic devices. In this review, we focus on …

Surface chemistry of gallium-based liquid metals

Y Ding, M Zeng, L Fu - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
The surface of liquid metals plays a critical role in establishing thermodynamic equilibria
(both mass and energy) at the interface between liquid metal and air. The exploration on the …

Controllable flow and manipulation of liquid metals

Y He, J You, MD Dickey, X Wang - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes the controllable flow and manipulation of gallium‐based liquid
metals (eg, eutectic gallium indium, EGaIn). There are generally only a few ways to handle …

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 …