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 …

Materials-driven soft wearable bioelectronics for connected healthcare

S Gong, Y Lu, J Yin, A Levin, W Cheng - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the era of Internet-of-things, many things can stay connected; however, biological
systems, including those necessary for human health, remain unable to stay connected to …

Three-dimensional flexible electronics using solidified liquid metal with regulated plasticity

G Li, M Zhang, S Liu, M Yuan, J Wu, M Yu, L Teng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Liquid metals based on gallium alloy are of potential use in the development of soft and
stretchable electronics due to their intrinsic fluidity and high conductivity. However, it is …

Wafer-patterned, permeable, and stretchable liquid metal microelectrodes for implantable bioelectronics with chronic biocompatibility

Q Zhuang, K Yao, M Wu, Z Lei, F Chen, J Li, Q Mei… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Implantable bioelectronics provide unprecedented opportunities for real-time and
continuous monitoring of physiological signals of living bodies. Most bioelectronics adopt …

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 …

Advanced soft materials, sensor integrations, and applications of wearable flexible hybrid electronics in healthcare, energy, and environment

HR Lim, HS Kim, R Qazi, YT Kwon… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in soft materials and system integration technologies have provided a
unique opportunity to design various types of wearable flexible hybrid electronics (WFHE) …

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 …

Flexible electronics: stretchable electrodes and their future

S Huang, Y Liu, Y Zhao, Z Ren… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible electronics, as an emerging and exciting research field, have brought great interest
to the issue of how to make flexible electronic materials that offer both durability and high …

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 …

Materials and structural designs of stretchable conductors

N Matsuhisa, X Chen, Z Bao, T Someya - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Stretchable conductors are essential building blocks for stretchable electronic devices used
in next-generation wearables and soft robotics. Over 10 years of research in stretchable …