(Nanowerk Spotlight) Creating electronic circuits that can bend and flex while maintaining reliable electrical connections presents significant engineering challenges. Traditional electronics rely on ...

Experiments with liquid metals could not only lead to exciting insights into geophysical and astrophysical flow phenomena, such as atmospheric disturbances at the rim of the sun or the flow in the ...

Researchers explored protective coatings to resist corrosion in fusion reactors. They tested -Al2O3 oxide layers on ODS alloys in a high-temperature, flowing lithium-lead environment. Even bare ODS ...

Recent decades have seen enormous progress in the experimental investigation of fundamental processes that are relevant to geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics. Liquid metals have proven ...

Alternating current (AC) arc melting technology has been developed for the manufacturing of lightweight materials and provides a potential heat source in welding and additive manufacturing. However, ...

Liquid metal, with its superior thermal conductivity, has been utilized as a novel coolant in microchannel heat sinks (MCHS). However, Liquid metal-based MCHSs suffer from the low heat capacity of ...

A liquid metal droplet that splits and merges to pump fluid offers a simple, low-voltage engine for powering soft robots, wearables, and microfluidic systems. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft machines are ...

A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe—fundamentally changing from particle-like to ...

Researchers have developed a way to dynamically switch the surface of liquidmetal between reflective and scattering states. This technology could one day be used to create electrically controllable ...

Scientists examined the chemical durability and anti-corrosion potential of oxide layers formed on oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) FeCrAl alloys in a liquid metal blanket environment Fusion ...