Liquid metals: fundamentals and applications in chemistry

T Daeneke, K Khoshmanesh, N Mahmood… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Post-transition elements, together with zinc-group metals and their alloys belong to an
emerging class of materials with fascinating characteristics originating from their …

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 …

Soft actuators for small‐scale robotics

L Hines, K Petersen, GZ Lum, M Sitti - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This review comprises a detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators,
highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer‐to centimeter‐scale robotic applications …

Critical review on the physical properties of gallium-based liquid metals and selected pathways for their alteration

S Handschuh-Wang, FJ Stadler… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Gallium-based liquid metals have gained plenty of attention in the scientific community due
to their extraordinary properties. The most intriguing properties of liquid metals are high …

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 …

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 …

Exploring interfacial graphene oxide reduction by liquid metals: Application in selective biosensing

M Baharfar, M Mayyas, M Rahbar, FM Allioux, J Tang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Liquid metals (LMs) are electronic liquid with enigmatic interfacial chemistry and physics.
These features make them promising materials for driving chemical reactions on their …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible sensors—from materials to applications

JC Costa, F Spina, P Lugoda, L Garcia-Garcia… - Technologies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Flexible sensors have the potential to be seamlessly applied to soft and irregularly shaped
surfaces such as the human skin or textile fabrics. This benefits conformability dependant …

Vacuum filling of complex microchannels with liquid metal

Y Lin, O Gordon, MR Khan, N Vasquez, J Genzer… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the utilization of vacuum to fill complex microchannels with liquid
metal. Microchannels filled with liquid metal are useful as conductors for soft and stretchable …

Controllable flow and manipulation of liquid metals

Y He, J You, MD Dickey, X Wang - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - 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 …