Researchers created liquid-metal battery that works at room-temperature. It promises more power than today’s lithium-ion batteries and can charge and deliver energy several times faster.
Printing liquid metals: The next generation of wiring
Direct‐write and 3D printing using liquids metals provides an interesting alternative for wiring in circuitry.
Liquid Metals to Accurately Monitor Human Motion
Thin, soft, and stretchable gallium-based sensors to accurately monitor human hand kinematics.
Liquid-Metal-Driven Micromachines for the Next Cutting-edge Technology
Is the T-1000 no longer science fiction?
‘Terminator’-like Liquid Metal
Current robots don’t have Terminator capabilities. But the technology is getting closer with new liquid metals that can be manipulated in 3D space with magnets.
Recent Advances in Functional Liquid Metals
The recent academic progresses as made on the three major themes regarding preparations, characteristics and applications of liquid metal materials are reviewed.
Liquid Metals Exploit Electrochemistry to form Soft Circuitry at Low Voltage
Exploiting electrochemistry to gain control over the interactions of liquid metal droplets enables reversible switching for soft circuitry.
How to pattern a liquid metal
Michael Dickey and colleagues at the North Carolina State University have found a very simple way to pattern liquid metals.
Scientists observe spontaneous liquification of a metal
Something unexpected happened when atoms of gallium were observed to spontaneously transition from solid to liquid and back again.
Quasi-solid zinc metal batteries could power the wearables of tomorrow
Zinc metal batteries built using a novel hydrogel electrolyte show remarkable performance and processability, making them suitable for the next generation of wearable energy storage devices.