Cross pattern of wires formed by self-assembling liquid metal particles
Julia Chang / North Carolina State University
Self-assembling electronics made from liquid metal particles could offer a cheaper way to manufacture computer chips by harnessing the fundamental physics of how fluids flow through tiny structures.
“The cost of building new electronics manufacturing and chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. right now, we’re talking about billions of dollars,” he says. Martin Thuo at North Carolina State University. “It’s not cheap.”
Thuo and his colleagues first created a mixture of…
