Preparations, characteristics and applications of the functional liquid metal materials

Q Wang, Y Yu, J Liu - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As new generation functional materials, the recently emerging low‐melting liquid metals
have displayed many unconventional properties superior to traditional materials. Various …

Liquid metal smart materials toward soft robotics

S Chen, HZ Wang, TY Liu, J Liu - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike conventional rigid machines, soft robots generally have unique operation styles that
rely heavily on soft matter engineering and smart material systems. Owing to the superior …

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 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 …

Surface tension of liquid metal: role, mechanism and application

X Zhao, S Xu, J Liu - Frontiers in Energy, 2017 - Springer
Surface tension plays a core role in dominating various surface and interface phenomena.
For liquid metals with high melting temperature, a profound understanding of the behaviors …

Interfacial engineering of room temperature liquid metals

JH Fu, TY Liu, Y Cui, J Liu - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Room temperature liquid metals (RTLMs), especially those made of gallium‐based alloys
belong to an emerging versatile material with fascinating characteristics derived from its …

Liquid metal droplets with high elasticity, mobility and mechanical robustness

Y Chen, Z Liu, D Zhu, S Handschuh-Wang, S Liang… - Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Non-stick, ultra-elastic liquid metal droplets were fabricated by coating
polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) particles onto the surface of NaOH-treated liquid metal …

Controllable stiffness origami “skeletons” for lightweight and multifunctional artificial muscles

Y Lin, G Yang, Y Liang, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible, material‐based, artificial muscles enable compliant and safe technologies for
human–machine interaction devices and adaptive soft robots, yet there remain long‐term …

Analysis and Transformations of Room‐Temperature Liquid Metal Interfaces–A Closer Look through Interfacial Tension

S Handschuh‐Wang, Y Chen, L Zhu… - ChemPhysChem, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Room‐temperature gallium‐based liquid metals (eg Galinstan) are emerging materials for a
wide range of applications spanning from soft robotics to a medium for running chemical …

Advances in liquid metal science and technology in chip cooling and thermal management

XH Yang, J Liu - Advances in Heat Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
As newly emerging functional materials in the field of chip cooling and thermal management,
liquid metals are attracting increasing attentions over the world in recent years. Typical …