Sha** 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 …

High latent heat phase change materials (PCMs) with low melting temperature for thermal management and storage of electronic devices and power batteries: Critical …

Y Liu, R Zheng, J Li - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
To protect electronic devices and batteries from sharp temperature rise and thermal
runaway, active/passive/hybrid thermal management using phase change materials (PCMs) …

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: nanotoolbox for antimicrobial applications

VK Truong, A Hayles, R Bright, TQ Luu, MD Dickey… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The proliferation of drug resistance in microbial pathogens poses a significant threat to
human health. Hence, treatment measures are essential to surmount this growing problem …

Liquid metal synthesis solvents for metallic crystals

SA Idrus-Saidi, J Tang, S Lambie, J Han, M Mayyas… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In nature, snowflake ice crystals arrange themselves into diverse symmetrical six-sided
structures. We show an analogy of this when zinc (Zn) dissolves and crystallizes in liquid …

Universally autonomous self-healing elastomer with high stretchability

H Guo, Y Han, W Zhao, J Yang, L Zhang - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Develo** autonomous self-healing materials for applications in harsh conditions is
challenging because the reconstruction of interaction in material for self-healing will …

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 …

Low-temperature liquid platinum catalyst

MA Rahim, J Tang, AJ Christofferson, PV Kumar… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Insights into metal–matrix interactions in atomically dispersed catalytic systems are
necessary to exploit the true catalytic activity of isolated metal atoms. Distinct from catalytic …

Self‐healing hydrogels: the next paradigm shift in tissue engineering?

S Talebian, M Mehrali, N Taebnia… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Given their durability and long‐term stability, self‐healable hydrogels have, in the past few
years, emerged as promising replacements for the many brittle hydrogels currently being …