A toolbox for investigating liquid metal systems

• DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.101820
• Publication Date: 2024-02-07T15:38:51Z
• Authors: Vaishnavi Krishna...; Caiden J. Parker; Chung Kim Nguyen; Pierre H.A. Vaillant; Rosalie K. Hocking; Benedikt Haas; Andrew J. Christo...; Salvy P. Russo; Ken Chiang; Aaron Elbourne; Torben Daeneke
• Keywords: Toolbox; Characterization; Biomedicine; Liquid metal

The exceptional properties of liquid metals at room temperature, such as their fluidity, stretchability, deformability, and potential applications, have rapidly inspired the scientific community. At present, main challenge is overcoming technical barriers associated with characterization metal systems, which resulted in molecular structure remaining effectively unknown. This lack knowledge has significantly hampered progress emerging field chemistry, prohibiting tailored design relegating researchers to work by trial error. In recent years, several technological developments, including improved analytical tools, emerged that tackle current challenges. this review, we present a comprehensive appraisal various state-of-the-art techniques can help uncover answers long-standing questions domain metal-in-metal colloidal systems. We describe selected generic methodologies unique approaches capture changes physical chemical behavior molten presence internal external stimuli. combination, outlined tools will deepen our understanding chemistry accelerate research translation provide solutions areas catalysis, biomedicine, reconfigurable electronics.