How Low Voltage Can Make Streams of Liquid Metal (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

How Low Voltage Can Make Streams of Liquid Metal

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When liquid metal is released into water, its high surface tension makes it form droplets -- rather than streams. But when a low voltage is applied, the surface tension drops, allowing the liquid metal to stream out as hairlike filaments.

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Minyung Song, NC State University

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