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Sonochemistry of molten metals

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Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 7625
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Supercooling suppression of phase change liquid metal–polydimethylsiloxane soft composites

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Liquid metal-supported synthesis of cupric oxide

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Self-patterning of liquid Field's metal for enhanced performance of two-dimensional semiconductors

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Nanoscale, 2025, 17, 16223
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Assembly of cerium-based coordination polymer into variant polycrystalline 2D–3D CeO2−x nanostructures

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Gallium nitride formation in liquid metal sonication

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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 16593
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Liquid metal assisted sonocatalytic degradation of organic azo dyes to solid carbon particles

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Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 9296
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Ambient‐Air‐Processed, Solution‐Based Organic Photovoltaics and Photodetectors

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Advanced Optical Materials, 2025, 13
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Incorporating Fe, Co co-doped graphene with PDI supermolecular for promoted photocatalytic activity: A story of electron transfer

Jinyuan Liu, Qichang Peng, Ruizhe Yang, Bin Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Rong Wang, Xingwang Zhu, Ming Cheng, Hui Xu and Huaming Li

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2023, 637, 94
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Strain-rate sensitivity of cement composites: Insights from field's metal nano-inclusions

Navid Tourani, Kwesi Sagoe-Crentsil and Wenhui Duan

Cement and Concrete Research, 2023, 171, 107210
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Multifunctional Liquid‐Metal Composites for Electromagnetic Communication and Attenuation

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Advanced Materials, 2025, 37
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Discriminatory {040}-Reduction Facet/Ag0Schottky Barrier Coupled {040/110}-BiVO4@Ag@CoAl-LDH Z-Scheme Isotype Heterostructure

Basudev Baral, Dipti Prava Sahoo and Kulamani Parida

Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 1698
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Induction heating for the removal of liquid metal-based implant mimics: A proof-of-concept

Roozbeh Abbasi, Jianbo Tang, Mahroo Baharfar, Chengchen Zhang, Francois-Marie Allioux, Jin Zhang, Mohammad Tajik, Jiong Yang, Joanna Biazik, Franco Centurion, Jialuo Han, Sajjad S. Mofarah, Dorna Esrafilzadeh, Pramod Koshy, Charles C. Sorrell, Sammy Lap Ip Chan, Md. Arifur Rahim and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Applied Materials Today, 2022, 27, 101459
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Integration of low-melting-point alloys and thermoplastic elastomers for 3D printing of multifunctional composites

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Liquid Metals in Catalysis for Energy Applications

Karma Zuraiqi, Ali Zavabeti, Francois-Marie Allioux, Jianbo Tang, Chung Kim Nguyen, Parisa Tafazolymotie, Mohannad Mayyas, Aswin V. Ramarao, Michelle Spencer, Kalpit Shah, Chris F. McConville, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Ken Chiang and Torben Daeneke

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Voltage-Driven Chemical Reactions Enable the Synthesis of Tunable Liquid Ga–Metal Nanoparticles

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J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 25401
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Insights into the Interfacial Contact and Charge Transport of Gas-Sensing Liquid Metal Marbles

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ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 30112
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Effects of particle size and oxide shell on variable stiffness performance of phase-changing materials

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Journal of Composite Materials, 2023, 57, 619
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High-temperature damage detection via liquid metallic laser-ultrasound transmitter and shielded AlN receiver

Howuk Kim, Nicholas Garcia, Taeyang Kim, Austin Selley, Sean Kerrigan, Mohamed Bourham and Xiaoning Jiang

Structural Health Monitoring, 2026
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Liquid Metal Alloy Catalysis – Challenges and Prospects

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ChemCatChem, 2023, 15
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Additive manufacture of low melting point metal porous materials: Capabilities, potential applications and challenges

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Materials Today, 2021, 49, 201
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Current Status and Outlook of Low‐Melting‐Point Metals in Biomedical Applications

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Adv Funct Materials, 2024, 34
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Liquid‐Metal‐Enabled Materials Design for Soft Electronics

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Adv Funct Materials, 2026, 36
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Emerging Liquid Metal Catalysts

Chenyang Wang, Tingli Wang, Mengqi Zeng and Lei Fu

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The Native Oxide Skin of Liquid Metal Ga Nanoparticles Prevents Their Rapid Coalescence during Electrocatalysis

Valery Okatenko, Laia Castilla-Amorós, Dragos Constantin Stoian, Jan Vávra, Anna Loiudice and Raffaella Buonsanti

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 10053
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Advances in liquid metal composites: properties, applications, and future prospects

Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Junma Tang, Md. Arifur Rahim, Jianbo Tang and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Trends in Chemistry, 2024, 6, 79
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Effect of Filler Aspect Ratio on Stiffness and Conductivity in Phase‐Changing Particulate Composites

Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Trevor L. Buckner, Bilige Yang and Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio

Adv Materials Technologies, 2022, 7
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Catalytic Metal Foam by Chemical Melting and Sintering of Liquid Metal Nanoparticles

Francois‐Marie Allioux, Salma Merhebi, Jianbo Tang, Shuhada A. Idrus‐Saidi, Roozbeh Abbasi, Maricruz G. Saborio, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Jialuo Han, Rashin Namivandi‐Zangeneh, Anthony P. O'Mullane, Pramod Koshy, Rahman Daiyan, Rose Amal, Cyrille Boyer and Kourosh Kalantar‐Zadeh

Adv Funct Materials, 2020, 30
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A Simple and Cost-Effective Method for Producing Stable Surfactant-Coated EGaIn Liquid Metal Nanodroplets

Bingbing Xu, Feng Ye, Guangtao Chang and Ruoxin Li

Materials, 2020, 13, 3753
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Liquid Metal-Based Route for Synthesizing and Tuning Gas-Sensing Elements

Shuhada A. Idrus-Saidi, Jianbo Tang, Jiong Yang, Jialuo Han, Torben Daeneke, Anthony P. O’Mullane and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

ACS Sens., 2020, 5, 1177
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Bi–Sn Catalytic Foam Governed by Nanometallurgy of Liquid Metals

Francois-Marie Allioux, Salma Merhebi, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Jianbo Tang, Andrea Merenda, Roozbeh Abbasi, Mohannad Mayyas, Torben Daeneke, Anthony P. O’Mullane, Rahman Daiyan, Rose Amal and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Nano Lett., 2020, 20, 4403
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Sonochemical Synthesis of Ga/ZnO Nanomaterials from a Liquid Metal for Photocatalytic Applications

Olawale Oloye, Joseph F. S. Fernando, Dmitri Golberg and Anthony P. O'Mullane

Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2022, 6
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Atomic Dispersion via High‐Entropy Liquid Metal Alloys

Francois‐Marie Allioux, Sahar Nazari, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Ali Zavabeti, Zengxia Pei, Josh Leverett, Somayeh Rafiezadeh, Amar K. Salih, Curtis P. Irvine, Mahroo Baharfar, Laetitia Bardet, Moonika S. Widjajana, Yuan Chi, Dorna Esrafilzadeh, Ali R. Jalili, Nima Haghdadi, Jianbo Tang, Kevin J. Laws, Cuong Ton‐That, Torben Daeneke, Rahman Daiyan, Md Arifur Rahim and Kourosh Kalantar‐Zadeh

Small Structures, 2024, 5
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Coordination Polymer to Atomically Thin, Holey, Metal‐Oxide Nanosheets for Tuning Band Alignment

Sajjad S. Mofarah, Esmaeil Adabifiroozjaei, Raheleh Pardehkhorram, M. Hussein N. Assadi, Manuel Hinterstein, Yin Yao, Xinhong Liu, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Kourosh Kalantar‐Zadeh, Rashid Mehmood, Claudio Cazorla, Reza Shahmiri, Ghazaleh Bahmanrokh, Saroj Bhattacharyya, Maria Chiara Spadaro, Jordi Arbiol, Sean Lim, Yuwen Xu, Hamidreza Arandiyan, Jason Scott, Pramod Koshy and Charles C. Sorrell

Advanced Materials, 2019, 31
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Intrinsically Stretchable Multilayer Film with Adjustable EMI Shielding and Multifunctionality for Wearable Electronics in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Hongtao Guo, Heng Luo, Haojie Jiang, Fei Pan, Yang Yang, Xiao Wang, Lingyang Ruan, Runa Zhang, Bin Yuan and Wei Lu

Nano Lett., 2025, 25, 6983
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Liquid metallic laser ultrasound transducer for high-temperature applications

Howuk Kim, Kyunghoon Kim, Nicholas Garcia, Tiegang Fang and Xiaoning Jiang

Applied Physics Letters, 2021, 118
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Synthesis of Planet‐Like Liquid Metal Nanodroplets with Promising Properties for Catalysis

Caiden J. Parker, Vaishnavi Krishnamurthi, Karma Zuraiqi, Chung Kim Nguyen, Mehmood Irfan, Fahad Jabbar, Dan Yang, Mew P. Aukarasereenont, Edwin L. H. Mayes, Billy J. Murdoch, Aaron Elbourne, Ken Chiang and Torben Daeneke

Adv Funct Materials, 2024, 34
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Effect of exposed facets of bismuth vanadate, controlled by ethanolamine, on oxidative coupling of primary amines

Sadanan Boochakiat, Doldet Tantraviwat, Oraphan Thongsook, Soraya Pornsuwan, Andrew Nattestad, Jun Chen, Duangdao Channei and Burapat Inceesungvorn

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021, 602, 168
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Phase-Change Polymer–Metal Composites with Tunable Thermal Conductivity and Their Additive Manufacturing

Jinyu Bu, Robsun Gina, Naifu Shen, Fan Zhang, Atik Faisal, Ran Tao and Weinan Xu

ACS Appl. Eng. Mater., 2026, 4, 1037
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Exploring Electrochemical Extrusion of Wires from Liquid Metals

Jialuo Han, Jianbo Tang, Shuhada A. Idrus-Saidi, Michael J. Christoe, Anthony P. O’Mullane and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 12, 31010
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Synthesis of Magnetic α-Fe2O3/Rutile TiO2 Hollow Spheres for Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity

Zhongli Zhou, Hang Yin, Yuling Zhao, Jianmin Zhang, Yahui Li, Jinshi Yuan, Jie Tang and Fengyun Wang

Catalysts, 2021, 11, 396
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Liquid metal-filled phase change composites with tunable stiffness: Computational modeling and experiment

Quang-Kha Nguyen, Jiexian Ma and Pu Zhang

Mechanics of Materials, 2023, 183, 104702
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In-situ transmission electron microscopy shedding light on the mechanical properties of nanoscale materials

Chunmeng Liu, Kemeng Yang, Jiaqi Zhang, Shaobo Cheng and Chongxin Shan

Microstructures, 2024, 4
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Magnetic and Conductive Liquid Metal Gels

Salma Merhebi, Mohannad Mayyas, Roozbeh Abbasi, Michael J. Christoe, Jialuo Han, Jianbo Tang, Md Arifur Rahim, Jiong Yang, Thiam Teck Tan, Dewei Chu, Jin Zhang, Sean Li, Chun H. Wang, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh and Francois-Marie Allioux

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 12, 20119
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Claw-inspired microneedle patches with liquid metal encapsulation for accelerating incisional wound healing

Xiaoxuan Zhang, Guopu Chen, Lingyu Sun, Fangfu Ye, Xian Shen and Yuanjin Zhao

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021, 406, 126741
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Lightweight Bismuth‐Based Liquid Metal Composite

Ju Wang, Minghui Guo, Weichen Feng, Huili Zhang, Jingyi Li, Zhongshan Deng, Yong Zhang, Jinpeng Zhang and Jing Liu

Small, 2026, 22
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Controllable Hydrothermal Synthesis and Photocatalytic Performance of Bi2MoO6 Nano/Microstructures

Tao Ji, Enna Ha, Mingzhou Wu, Xin Hu, Jie Wang, Yangang Sun, Shijie Li and Junqing Hu

Catalysts, 2020, 10, 1161
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Homogenization of Post‐Transition Metal Alloys into High‐Entropy‐Like Nanoparticles

Francois‐Marie Allioux, Luis G. B. Campos, Yuqin Wang, Yu Yang, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Moonika S. Widjajana, Shih‐Hao Chiu, Nur‐Adania Nor‐Azman, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Ziling Zhang, Hongwei Liu, Rahman Daiyan, Jianbo Tang, Fengwang Li, Xiaozhou Liao, Priyank Kumar and Kourosh Kalantar‐Zadeh

Small, 2026, 22
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Regenerable liquid metal nanozymes enable pH-regulated multi-enzyme mimicking

Yuhe Shen, Ruizhe Xing, Xiaojian Xu, Yuefei Wang, Renliang Huang, Rongxin Su, Michael D. Dickey, Wei Qi and Jie Kong

Matter, 2025, 8, 102159
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Doping Process of 2D Materials Based on the Selective Migration of Dopants to the Interface of Liquid Metals

Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Ali Zavabeti, Maedehsadat Mousavi, Billy J. Murdoch, Andrew J. Christofferson, Nastaran Meftahi, Jianbo Tang, Jialuo Han, Rouhollah Jalili, Francois‐Marie Allioux, Mohannad Mayyas, Zibin Chen, Aaron Elbourne, Chris F. McConville, Salvy P. Russo, Simon Ringer and Kourosh Kalantar‐Zadeh

Advanced Materials, 2021, 33
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Supported Cu/W/Mo/Ni—Liquid Metal Catalyst with Core-Shell Structure for Photocatalytic Degradation

Shuting Liang, Chaowei Wang, Fengjiao Li and Gang Song

Catalysts, 2021, 11, 1419
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A study on the fabrication of metal microneedle array electrodes for ECG detection based on low melting point Bi–In–Sn alloys

Hyunjong Gwak, Sungbo Cho, Yoon-Jae Song, Jung-Hwan Park and Soonmin Seo

Sci Rep, 2023, 13
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