A5087654837- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- ZnO doping and properties
- Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
- Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
- Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Nanoporous metals and alloys
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Conducting polymers and applications
- nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
- Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
- Ga2O3 and related materials
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
- Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
- Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
- 2D Materials and Applications
UNSW Sydney
2019-2025
Westlake University
2024-2025
Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2021-2024
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
2021-2023
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013-2023
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013-2023
Lanzhou University
2021-2022
Guangzhou University
2022
Tsinghua University
2012-2020
Shandong Institute of Automation
2019
Bulk liquid metals have prospective applications as soft and fluid electrical thermal conductors in electronic optical devices, composites, microfluidics, robotics, metallurgy with unique opportunities for processing, chemistry, function. Yet metals' great potential nanotechnology remains its infancy. Although work to date focuses primarily on Ga, Hg, their alloys, expand the field, we define "liquid metals" alloys melting points (mp) up 330 °C, readily accessible processable even using...
Metals are excellent choices for electrical- and thermal-current conducting. However, either the stiffness of solid metals or fluidity liquid could be troublesome when flexibility formability both desired. To address this problem, a reliable two-stage route to improve functionalities gallium-based is proposed. A series stable semiliquid/semisolid metal amalgams with well-controlled particle packing ratios, which we call TransM2ixes, prepared characterized. Through effectively copper...
Abstract Surface patterning of liquid metals (LMs) is a key processing step for LM‐based functional systems. Current methods are substrate specific and largely suffer from undesired imperfections—restricting their widespread applications. Inspired by the universal catechol adhesion chemistry observed in nature, LM inks stabilized assembly naturally abundant polyphenol, tannic acid, has been developed. The intrinsic adhesive properties acid containing multiple catechol/gallol groups, allow to...
A biomimetic cellular‐eating phenomenon in gallium‐based liquid metal to realize particle internalization full‐pH‐range solutions is reported. The effect, which called phagocytosis, represents a wet‐processing strategy prepare various metallic metal‐particle mixtures through introducing excitations such as an electrical polarization, dissolving medium, or sacrificial metal. nonwetting‐to‐wetting transition resulting from surface and the reactive nature of intermetallic wetting between two...
Abstract Liquid metals offer unprecedented chemistry. Here it is shown that they can facilitate self‐limiting oxidation processes on their surfaces, which enables the growth of metal oxides are atomically thin. This claim exemplified by creating thin hydrated MnO 2 using a Galvanic replacement reaction between permanganate ions and liquid gallium–indium alloy (EGaIn). The “liquid solution”–“liquid metal” process leads to reduction ions, resulting in formation oxide monolayer at interface. It...
In nature, snowflake ice crystals arrange themselves into diverse symmetrical six-sided structures. We show an analogy of this when zinc (Zn) dissolves and crystallizes in liquid gallium (Ga). The low-melting-temperature Ga is used as a "metallic solvent" to synthesize range flake-like Zn crystals. extract these metallic from the metal solvent by reducing its surface tension using combination electrocapillary modulation vacuum filtration. metal-grown feature high morphological diversity...
As a class of emerging multifunctional soft materials, gallium-based liquid metal (LM) amalgams, metal/nonmetal particles dispersed in an LM environment, suggest combination intriguing properties. In this article, Mg gallium-indium alloy for making new conceptual biomedical which can adapt to any irregular skin surface, are introduced, and superior photothermal effect with 61.5% conversion (PTC) increase respect that the is realized. The formation intermetallic phase Mg2 Ga5 adjustable...
Abstract As soft conductive materials with high liquid fluidity, the room‐temperature metal alloys (LMs) offer a superior alternative to fabrication of flexible electronics. So far, techniques aiming at patterning LMs are seriously limited by alloy's surface tension and poor wettability many substrates. Additionally, based mass production fast efficient printing on desired target still encounters tremendous unsolved challenges. Here, one‐step transfer method wide range substrate...
Colloidal liquid metal alloys of gallium, with melting points below room temperature, are potential candidates for creating electrically conductive and flexible composites. However, inclusion micro- nanodroplets into soft polymeric matrices requires a harsh auxiliary mechanical pressing to rupture the droplets establish continuous pathways high electrical conductivity. such destructive strategy reduces integrity Here, this problem is solved by incorporating small loading nonfunctionalized...
Abstract The nascent field of nanotechnology-enabled metallurgy has great potential. However, the role eutectic alloys and nature alloy solidification in this are still largely unknown. To demonstrate one promises liquid metals field, we explore a model system catalytically active Bi-Sn nano-alloys produced using liquid-phase ultrasonication technique investigate their phase separation, surface oxidation, nucleation. ratio determines grain boundary properties emergence dislocations within...
Liquid metals are fast becoming a new class of universal and frictionless additives for the development multifunctional soft flexible materials. Herein, nanodroplets eutectic gallium-indium alloy, which is liquid at room temperature, were used as platform formulation electrically conductive magnetically responsive gels with incorporation Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The nanoadditives prepared in situ within water-based solution polyvinyl alcohol. A borax cross-linking reaction was then performed to...
Liquid metals can play an essential role in the generation of electrically conductive composites for electronic devices and environmental sensing remediation applications. Here, a method growing polyaniline nanofibrous network at liquid metal nanoparticle interfaces is demonstrated generating hybrid metal–polymer nanocomposites. The investigation shows that initial functionalization step nanoparticles with polymerization enhancer providing stable specific nucleation points formation network....
A green carbon capture and conversion technology offering scalability economic viability for mitigating CO2 emissions is reported. The uses suspensions of gallium liquid metal to reduce into carbonaceous solid products O2 at near room temperature. nonpolar nature the interface allows instantaneously exfoliate, hence keeping active sites accessible. co-contributor silver-gallium rods ensures a cyclic sustainable process. overall process relies on mechanical energy as input, which drives...
Abstract Room‐temperature synthesis of 2D graphitic materials (2D‐GMs) remains an elusive aim, especially with electrochemical means. Here, it is shown that liquid metals render this possible as they offer catalytic activity and ultrasmooth templating interface promotes Frank–van der Merwe regime growth, while allowing facile exfoliation due to the absence interfacial forces a nonpolar liquid. The 2D‐GMs are formed at low onset potential can be in situ doped depending on choice organic...
Liquid metals (LMs) are electronic liquid with enigmatic interfacial chemistry and physics. These features make them promising materials for driving chemical reactions on their surfaces designing nanoarchitectonic systems. Herein, we showed the interaction between eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn) metal graphene oxide (GO) reduction of both substrate-based free-standing GO. NanoIR surface mapping indicated successful removal carbonyl groups. Based gained knowledge, a composite consisting...
The introduction of trace impurities within the doping processes semiconductors is still a technological challenge for electronics industries. By taking advantage selective enrichment liquid metal interfaces, and harvesting doped oxide semiconductor layers, complexity process can be mitigated high degree control over outcomes achieved. Here, mechanism natural filtering preparation 2D semiconducting sheets based on different migration tendencies metallic elements in bulk competing enriching...
The intermetallic wetting between metallic liquids and solid surfaces enables a high-resolution liquid metal patterning strategy which is widely applicable for fabricating functional patterns on versatile substrates planar/3D geometries.
Gallium (Ga) compounds, as the source of Ga ions (Ga3+), have been historically used anti-inflammatories. Currently, widely accepted mechanisms anti-inflammatory effects for Ga3+ are rationalized on basis their similarities to ferric (Fe3+), which permits bind with Fe-binding proteins and subsequently disturbs Fe homeostasis in immune cells. Here contrast classic views, our study presents by delivering nanodroplets (GNDs) into lipopolysaccharide-induced macrophages exploring processes. The...
Multi-stimulus responsive soft materials with integrated functionalities are elementary blocks for building intelligent systems, but their rational design remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate an architecture sensitized by magnetized liquid metal droplets that dispersed in a highly stretchable elastomer network. The supercooled serve as microscopic latent heat reservoirs, and controllable solidification releases localized thermal energy/information flows enabling programmable...