Microencapsulated Liquid Metals for the Autonomous Restoration of In-Mold Electronic Circuits

Liquid metals and their derivatives provide several opportunities for fundamental and practical exploration worldwide. However, the increasing number of studies and shortage of desirable materials to fulfill different needs also pose serious challenges. Herein, to address this issue, we systematically presented a generalized theoretical frame that was termed as “Liquid Metal Combinatorics” (LMC), and summarized promising candidate technical routes toward new generation material discovery. The major categories of LMC were defined, and eight representative methods for manufacturing advanced materials were outlined. It has been illustrated that abundant targeted materials can be efficiently designed and fabricated via LMC through deep physical combinations, chemical reactions, or both among the main bodies of liquid metals, surface chemicals, precipitated ions, and other materials. This represents a large class of powerful, reliable, and modular methods for innovating general materials. The achieved combinatorial materials not only maintained the typical characteristics of liquid metals but also displayed distinct tenability. Furthermore, the fabrication strategies, wide extensibility, and pivotal applications of LMC are classified. Finally, by interpreting the developmental trends in the area, a perspective on the LMC was provided, which warrants its promising future for society.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved

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“…Furthermore, to maintain the stability of the liquid metal droplets, they can be encapsulated in a protective shell. [ 164 ]…”

Section: Eight Representative Ways For Liquid Metal Combinatorics Mat...mentioning

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Liquid Metal Combinatorics toward Materials Discovery

Wang

Bai

et al. 2023

Advanced Materials

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“…Flexible and stretchable electronics play an important role in the development of sensors, [240][241][242][243][244] antenna, [245,246] electronic circuits, [74,247] and area which is a natural fit for liquid metals. This section reviews the recent developments of flexible and stretchable electronics based on liquid metals, and we discuss the opportunities as well as challenges for this new generation of soft electronic devices.…”

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Smart Eutectic Gallium–Indium: From Properties to Applications

et al. 2022

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Eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with a melting point close to or below room temperature, has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its excellent properties such as fluidity, high conductivity, thermal conductivity, stretchability, self‐healing capability, biocompatibility, and recyclability. These features of EGaIn can be adjusted by changing the experimental condition, and various composite materials with extended properties can be further obtained by mixing EGaIn with other materials. In this review, not only the are unique properties of EGaIn introduced, but also the working principles for the EGaIn‐based devices are illustrated and the developments of EGaIn‐related techniques are summarized. The applications of EGaIn in various fields, such as flexible electronics (sensors, antennas, electronic circuits), molecular electronics (molecular memory, opto‐electronic switches, or reconfigurable junctions), energy catalysis (heat management, motors, generators, batteries), biomedical science (drug delivery, tumor therapy, bioimaging and neural interfaces) are reviewed. Finally, a critical discussion of the main challenges for the development of EGaIn‐based techniques are discussed, and the potential applications in new fields are prospected.

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Microencapsulated Liquid Metals for the Autonomous Restoration of In-Mold Electronic Circuits

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Liquid Metal Combinatorics toward Materials Discovery

Liquid Metal Combinatorics toward Materials Discovery

Smart Eutectic Gallium–Indium: From Properties to Applications

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