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Liquid metal synthesis solvents for metallic crystals

Published:2022-12-09 Issue:6624 Volume:378 Page:1118-1124
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Idrus-Saidi Shuhada A.¹^ORCID,Tang Jianbo¹^ORCID,Lambie Stephanie²^ORCID,Han Jialuo¹,Mayyas Mohannad¹^ORCID,Ghasemian Mohammad B.¹^ORCID,Allioux Francois-Marie¹^ORCID,Cai Shengxiang¹^ORCID,Koshy Pramod³^ORCID,Mostaghimi Peyman⁴^ORCID,Steenbergen Krista G.⁵^ORCID,Barnard Amanda S.⁶^ORCID,Daeneke Torben⁷^ORCID,Gaston Nicola²^ORCID,Kalantar-Zadeh Kourosh¹⁸^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.

2. MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.

3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.

4. School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.

5. MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.

6. School of Computing, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia.

7. School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.

8. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW 2008, Australia.

Abstract

In nature, snowflake ice crystals arrange themselves into diverse symmetrical six-sided structures. We show an analogy of this when zinc (Zn) dissolves and crystallizes in liquid gallium (Ga). The low-melting-temperature Ga is used as a “metallic solvent” to synthesize a range of flake-like Zn crystals. We extract these metallic crystals from the liquid metal solvent by reducing its surface tension using a combination of electrocapillary modulation and vacuum filtration. The liquid metal–grown crystals feature high morphological diversity and persistent symmetry. The concept is expanded to other single and binary metal solutes and Ga-based solvents, with the growth mechanisms elucidated through ab initio simulation of interfacial stability. This strategy offers general routes for creating highly crystalline, shape-controlled metallic or multimetallic fine structures from liquid metal solvents.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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