Liquid Metal

We developed a super facile way to pattern liquid metal into complicated microstructures with branches and dead-ends. The process only took less than 1 minute.

We injected liquid metal into the core of hollow and extremely stretchable elastomeric fibers and the resulting fibers could be intertwined into a helix to fabricate capacitive sensors of torsion, strain, and touch.

We described here a light-fueled liquid-metal transformer for effective endosomal escape-facilitated cargo delivery via a chemical-mechanical process. Such liquid metal transformer could absorb and convert photoenergy to drive the simultaneous phase separation and morphological transformation from nanospheres to hollow nanorods to promote endosomal escape of payloads.

We designed a liquid metal based composite that can change from non-conductive states to fully conductive states with mechanical pressure. Therefore, we can simply use a pen to create arbitrary conductive circuits on a soft substrate.

We explored an extremely facile method to fabricate metallic wires at room temperature.

We have developed a new liquid metal-based drug delivery platform for anticancer therapy. The liquid-metal nanomedicines are able to fuse for promoting drug release and eventually degrade under a mild acidic environment.

We designed a liquid metal based composite that can change from non-conductive states to fully conductive states with mechanical pressure. Therefore, we can simply use a pen to create arbitrary conductive circuits on a soft substrate.

We could tune the liquid metal microparticles size in a flow-focusing device through applying a small voltage to change the liquid metal surface tension.

We demonstrate a novel method for controlling the flow of liquid metal in microchannels simply by applying a modest voltage to the metal relative to a counter electrode placed in the outlet.

In this work, we fabricate soft conductive wires composed of liquid metal and elastomer, and such wires could be stretched to more than 10 times of original lengths, without losing their conductivity.