ArticleNational science review2020
Voltage-induced penetration effect in liquid metals at room temperature.
Article in National science review, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Controllable Liquid Metal Microparticles Production and Patterning by Miniaturized Filter-Sieve Generators.Small methods · 2025Article
- Noncontact rotation, levitation, and acceleration of flowing liquid metal wires.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Electrically driven heartbeat effect of gallium-based liquid metal on a ratchet.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Crystal face dependent intrinsic wettability of metal oxide surfaces.National science review · 2021Article
- Overcoming Rayleigh-Plateau instabilities: Stabilizing and destabilizing liquid-metal streams via electrochemical oxidation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- A river (of liquid metal) runs through it.National science review · 2020Article
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Abstract
Room-temperature liquid metal is discovered to be capable of penetrating through macro- and microporous materials by applying a voltage. The liquid metal penetration effects are demonstrated in various porous materials such as tissue paper, thick and fine sponges, fabrics, and meshes. The underlying mechanism is that the high surface tension of liquid metal can be significantly reduced to near-zero due to the voltage-induced oxidation of the liquid metal surface in a solution. It is the extremely low surface tension and gravity that cause the liquid metal to superwet the solid surface, leading to the penetration phenomena. These findings offer new opportunities for novel microfluidic applications and could promote further discovery of more exotic fluid states of liquid metals.
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