Liquid metal jetting (LMJ) is a new technology showing promise for improved speed, cost, and safety of metal AM, thus opening the doors to broader industrial adoption. LMJ is still a very young ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until it melted, they learned to pull liquid metal from rock, a skill that helped ...

A new way to make stretchy wiring uses ultrasound and microscopic spheres of liquid metal The researchers began by drawing on sheets of stretchy plastic with lines of microscopic droplets made of an ...

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 ...