Effect of Electric Field on the Wetting Behavior of Eutectic Gallium–Indium Alloys in Aqueous Environment

• Published in: Journal of electronic materials Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 2782 - 2790
• Main Authors: Yuan, Bo, He, Zhi-Zhu, Liu, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.05.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Chemistry and Materials Science; Contact angle; Electric contacts; Electric fields; Electronics and Microelectronics; Gallium base alloys; Indium; Instrumentation; Liquid metals; Materials Science; Metals; Optical and Electronic Materials; Process parameters; Roughness; Solid State Physics; Substrates; Surface tension; Titanium; Wettability; Wetting; electrowetting; Liquid metal; contact angle; surface tension; electrical field effect

Room-temperature liquid metals have many intriguing properties that have not previously been fully understood. Among them, surface tension behaviors of such metals are especially critical in a group of newly emerging areas such as printed electronics, functional materials and soft machines, etc. Thi...