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 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 …

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 …

Reconfigurable magnetic liquid metal robot for high-performance droplet manipulation

Y Zhang, S Jiang, Y Hu, T Wu, Y Zhang, H Li, A Li… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Droplet manipulation is crucial for diverse applications ranging from bioassay to medical
diagnosis. Current magnetic-field-driven manipulation strategies are mainly based on fixed …

Liquid metal‐based soft electronics for wearable healthcare

YG Park, GY Lee, J Jang, SM Yun… - Advanced healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wearable healthcare devices have garnered substantial interest for the realization of
personal health management by monitoring the physiological parameters of individuals …

A review on micromixers

G Cai, L Xue, H Zhang, J Lin - Micromachines, 2017 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic devices have attracted increasing attention in the fields of biomedical
diagnostics, food safety control, environmental protection, and animal epidemic prevention …

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 …

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 enabled microfluidics

K Khoshmanesh, SY Tang, JY Zhu, S Schaefer… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Several gallium-based liquid metal alloys are liquid at room temperature. As 'liquid', such
alloys have a low viscosity and a high surface tension while as 'metal', they have high …

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 …