Low melting point liquid metals are materials with rich chemistries and physics. However, our knowledge about them is still relatively rudimentary and their major applications have largely remained limited to centuries-old conventional usages. This talk presents some of the novel concepts that liquid metals can offer in the field of electronics. The talk includes a discussion on how metallurgy is combined with liquid metals to gain peculiar advantages for the creation of low dimensional compounds, specifically materials with applications in catalysis and electronics. The talk will focus on how by direct alloying, and taking advantage of interfacial layering/competition or crystallinisation of the added elements, or by using the ultrasmooth surface of liquid metals, as the templating environment, these functional materials can be created. Eventually it will be shown that liquid metals can be used for creating electronic units and also electrochemical elements for catalysis and conversion. It will be discussed that the potential impact of the liquid metals system will be significant on future technologies.

Liquid metals for synthesizing catalytic and electronic materials

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