Liquid Metal

In this work, we showed the development of a vapor cavity generating ultrasonic platform for nebulizing liquid metal within aqueous media for the one-step production of stable and functional liquid metal NPs.

We developed a strategy to graft polymeric coating on liquid metal nanoparticles and the resulting nanoparticles can remain stable in biological buffers for at least 60 days without noticeable oxidation.

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 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.