Liquid Metal Breakthrough Can Transform Everyday Materials Into Electronic “Smart Devices” — Chinese scientists have de |
Researchers have developed a new method of applying liquid metal to surfaces such as paper and plastic, transforming these everyday materials into potential “smart devices.” Future endeavors aim to broaden the application to diverse surfaces and to construct smart devices from materials treated by this method.
“Before, we thought that it was impossible for liquid metal to adhere to non-wetting surfaces so easily, but here it can adhere to various surfaces only by adjusting the pressure, which is very interesting,” said Bo Yuan, a scientist at Tsinghua University and the first author of the study. To explore an alternative approach that would allow them to directly print liquid metal on substrates without sacrificing the metal’s properties, Yuan and colleagues applied two different liquid metals to various silicone and silicone polymer stamps, then applied different forces as they rubbed the stamps onto paper surfaces.
Next, the team folded the metal-coated paper into a paper crane, demonstrating that the surface can still be folded as usual after the process is completed. And after doing so, the modified paper still maintains its usual properties.
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