Issue 4, 2021

Liquid metal-based nanocomposite materials: fabrication technology and applications

Abstract

Research on liquid metals has been steadily garnering more interest in recent times, especially in flexible electronics applications because of their properties like possessing high conductivity and being liquid state at room temperature. The unique properties afforded by such materials at low temperatures can compensate for the limitations of stretchable electronic devices, particularly robustness and their fluidic property, which can enhance the flexibility and deformation of these devices. Therefore, interest in liquid-metal nanoparticles and liquid metals with nanocomposites has enabled research into their fabrication technologies as well as utilisation in fields such as chemistry, polymer engineering, computational modelling, and nanotechnology. In particular, in flexible and stretchable electronic device applications, the research attention is focused on the fabrication methodologies of liquid-metal nanoparticles and liquid metals containing nanocomposites. This review attempts to summarise the available stretchable and flexible electronics applications that use liquid-metal nanoparticles as well as liquid metals with nanomaterial additives.

Graphical abstract: Liquid metal-based nanocomposite materials: fabrication technology and applications

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
19 oct. 2020
Accepted
17 déc. 2020
First published
18 déc. 2020

Nanoscale, 2021,13, 2113-2135

Author version available

Liquid metal-based nanocomposite materials: fabrication technology and applications

N. Ochirkhuyag, R. Matsuda, Z. Song, F. Nakamura, T. Endo and H. Ota, Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 2113 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR07479A

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