Gold Metal Liquid-Like Droplets

Gold metal liquid-like droplets.

Simple methods to self-assemble coatings and films encompassing nanoparticles are highly desirable in many practical scenarios, yet scarcely any examples of simple, robust approaches to coat macroscopic droplets with continuous, thick (multilayer), reflective and stable liquid nanoparticle films exist. Here, we introduce a facile and rapid one-step route to form films of reflective liquid-like ...

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Metal nanocrystals: Deforming like liquid droplets.

T he properties of materials often change drastically when their size is decreased to the nanometre range. For example, as the surface-to-volume ratio of a material is increased, typically its melting temperature depresses and its chemical reactivity tends to increase. Also, as the size of a crystal shrinks down to submicrometre sizes, it becomes more difficult to deform it plastically (that is...

Turbulent Transition in Electromagnetically Levitated Liquid Metal Droplets

iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to my family. The condition of fluid flow has been proven to have a significant influence on a wide variety of material processes. In electromagnetic levitation (EML) experiments, the internal flow is driven primarily by electromagnetic forces. In 1-g, the positioning forces are very strong and the internal flows are turbulent. To reduce the flows driven by the levitat...

Blue-phase liquid crystal droplets.

Blue phases of liquid crystals represent unique ordered states of matter in which arrays of defects are organized into striking patterns. Most studies of blue phases to date have focused on bulk properties. In this work, we present a systematic study of blue phases confined into spherical droplets. It is found that, in addition to the so-called blue phases I and II, several new morphologies ari...