3D printing with liquid metals
While 3D printers of today are basically limited to plastics and resins, the holy grail of desktop fabrication is printing with metal. While we won’t be printing out steel objects on a desktop printer...
View ArticleLiquid Metal Changes Shape to Tune Antenna
Antennas can range from a few squiggles on a PCB to a gigantic Yagi on a tower. The basic laws of physics must be obeyed, though, and whatever form the antenna takes it all boils down to a conductor...
View ArticleStretchable Traces for Flexible Circuits
Electronic components are getting smaller and smaller, but the printed circuit boards we usually mount them on haven’t changed much. Stiff glass-epoxy boards can be a limiting factor in designing for...
View ArticleReducing Carbon Emissions With Coal
It might seem like a paradox, but coal might hold the answer to solving carbon emission problems. The key isn’t burning it, but creating it using carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. While this has...
View ArticleAluminium Pucks Fuel Hydrogen Trucks
In the race toward a future free from fossil fuels, hydrogen is rapidly gaining ground. On paper, hydrogen sounds fantastic — it’s clean-burning with zero emissions, the refuel time is much faster than...
View ArticleCircuit Boards You Can Stretch: Liquid Metal Nanomaterials Make a Strange Flex
If you think polyimide-based flexible PCBs are cool, wait until you get a load of what polymerized liquid metal networks can do. Seems like [CNLohr] has some pretty cool friends, and he recently spent...
View ArticleSilicone Devices: DIY Stretchable Circuits
Flexible circuits built on polyimide film are now commonplace, you can prototype with them at multiple factories, at a cost that is almost acceptable to your average hacker. Polyimide film is pretty...
View ArticleBetter Robots Through Gallium
In the movie Terminator 2, the T-1000 robot was made of some kind of liquid metal that could change shape among other interesting things. According to a chemical engineer at North Carolina State...
View ArticleNanoparticles Rip Hydrogen from Water
Hydrogen fuel is promising, and while there’s plenty of hydrogen in the air and water, the problem is extracting it. Researchers have developed a way to use aluminum nanoparticles to rip hydrogen out...
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