Liquid metal spring: oscillating coalescence and ejection of contacting liquid metal 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 ...

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...

Supporting Information Gold Metal Liquid-Like Droplets

Coalescence of Charged Droplets in Agitated Liquid-Liquid Dispersions

Experimental studies have been performed to assess the effect of drop charge on turbulent drop coalescence. Although it is well known that surface charge can affect coalescence rates of Brownian particles in a quiescent medium, no studies have been found in the literature which explicitly examine charge effects on larger drops in turbulent media. Results demonstate that drop charge can substant...

Coalescence of Immiscible Liquid Metal Drop on Graphene

Molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the wetting and coalescence of liquid Al and Pb drops on four carbon-based substrates. We highlight the importance of the microstructure and surface topography of substrates in the coalescence process. Our results show that the effect of substrate on coalescence is achieved by changing the wettability of the Pb metal. Additionally, we...