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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2026

Gravity-Driven Assembly Dynamics of Liquid Metal Microdroplets for Functional Composite Films.

Brittan T Wilcox, Ryan C Rothermel, Michael D Bartlett

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brittan T WilcoxMechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Ryan C RothermelMechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Michael D BartlettMechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7391-5135

Funding

Office of Naval Research N000142412504
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid metal (LM) microdroplets have emerged as versatile building blocks for soft and stretchable electronics, enabling compliant conductors, multilayer architectures, and reconfigurable systems. Among the manufacturing strategies used to structure these composites, gravitational settling in liquid-phase polymer films offers a scalable pathway for directed assembly; however, the mechanics and kinetics governing this process remain poorly understood. Here we create an experimental platform and quantitative image-analysis framework to measure the gravitational settling dynamics of highly packed LM microdroplets in liquid-phase polymer resin films. By systematically varying LM microdroplets size (

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compositeelectrical conductorelectronicsfabricationliquid metalmaterials sciencepolymersettlingviscosity

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PMID42439069
PMCPMC13533223

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