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Liquid-Metal Nodal Sheet for Reconfigurable Devices and Circuits

IEEE Access, 2020
Gallium-based liquid metals have attracted attention as a conductive adaptable material that can be shaped to obtain reconfigurability. We demonstrate a two-dimensional array of liquid-metal conductive nodes, in which reconfigurability is achieved by ...
Kareem S Elassy, M Arifur Rahman, Wayne A. Shiroma, Aaron T. Ohta   +3 more
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Surface Modification of Gallium‐Based Liquid Metals: Mechanisms and Applications in Biomedical Sensors and Soft Actuators

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021
This review focuses on surface modifications to gallium‐based liquid metals (LMs), which are stretchable conductors with metallic conductivity and nearly unlimited extensibility due to their liquid nature.
Ki Yoon Kwon, Vi Khanh Truong, Febby Krisnadi, Sooik Im, Jinwoo Ma, Nazgol Mehrabian, Tae-il Kim, Michael D. Dickey   +7 more
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Compatibility of LaFe_13−x−yMn_xSi_yH_1.6 and Eutectic Liquid GaInSn Alloy

Magnetochemistry
The heat transfer rate of magnetocaloric regenerators is a topic of extensive research and the cyclability of these regenerators is critical to the operation of systems with a high coefficient of performance (e.g., potentially >22, significantly higher ...
Jamieson Brechtl, Joseph Rendall, Mingkan Zhang, Michael R. Koehler, Kashif Nawaz, Ayyoub M. Momen   +5 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won, Jaehyun Jang, Hyeonseo Kim, Inyoung Choi, Steve Park, Seongjun Park   +5 more
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Superelongation of Liquid Metal

Advanced Science, 2022
The ability to control interfacial tension electrochemically is uniquely available for liquid metals (LMs), in particular gallium‐based LM alloys. This imparts them with excellent locomotion and deformation capabilities and enables diverse applications ...
Xiangpeng Li, Lu Cao, Bing Xiao, Fangxia Li, Junhui Yang, Jie Hu, Tim Cole, Yuxin Zhang, Mingkui Zhang, Jiahao Zheng, Shiwu Zhang, Weihua Li, Lining Sun, Xiaoqian Chen, Shi‐Yang Tang   +14 more
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Three-phase alternating current liquid metal vortex magnetohydrodynamic generator

iScience, 2021
Summary: Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generators directly convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. However, due to production of low amplitude voltages at low fluid velocities, they are not useful for electronic devices requiring power at watt scale.
Siddharth Raj Gupta, J. Ashley Taylor, Tom Krupenkin   +2 more
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Surface and Interfacial Engineering toward Durable Mechanically Coupled Flexible Electronics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This Review highlights how surface and interfacial engineering governs the reliability, durability, and functional stability of mechanically coupled flexible electronics. By integrating fundamental interfacial theory, failure mechanisms, multiscale engineering strategies, and representative applications, it provides a design‐oriented framework for ...
Qian Wang, Fangfang Dai, Wei Wu
wiley   +1 more source

A soft sandwich structure enables voltage-induced actuation of liquid metal embedded elastomers

AIP Advances, 2020
Dispersing liquid metal droplets in a soft elastomer matrix yields a composite, called liquid metal embedded elastomer (LMEE), with less modified stiffness but noticeably increased relative permittivity.
Yin Wang, Geng Sun, Juancheng Yang, Ling Zhang, Jinxiong Zhou   +4 more
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Liquid Metals in Radio Frequency Applications: A Review of Physics, Manufacturing, and Emerging Technologies

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
This paper reviews the physics of liquid metals in RF devices, including the influence of mechanical strain on resonance as well as fabrication methods and strategies for designing tunable and strain‐tolerant inductors, capacitors, and antennas.
Md Saifur Rahman, William J. Scheideler
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Avalanche Coalescence of Liquid Metal Particles for Uniform Flexible and Stretchable Electrodes

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022
Self‐sinterable gallium‐based liquid metal (LM) ink for a handy drop‐casting coating method is developed. The fabricated LM electrode is coffee‐ring‐free and bilayer‐free, which guarantees high electrical conductivity, wettability, flexibility, and ...
Kwangseok Park, Jeongsu Pyeon, Seung Hee Jeong, Yong‐Jin Yoon, Hyoungsoo Kim   +4 more
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