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Liquid metals (LMs) offer unique properties for advanced materials. This review highlights supramolecular interfacial design for creating reconfigurable, self-healing LMs-based soft materials with enhanced mechanical properties.

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  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology
  • Soft Matter Physics

Background:

  • Liquid metals (LMs) possess advantageous properties like room-temperature fluidity and chemical reactivity, positioning them as promising reconfigurable functional materials.
  • Challenges in LM-based material development include high surface tension, low shape stability, and oxidation, necessitating advanced interfacial design strategies.
  • Elaborate structural regulation and functional construction of LM composites remain difficult, with interfacial design being a critical factor.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent advancements in liquid metal-based soft materials with high mechanical properties and reconfigurability.
  • To focus on supramolecular interfacial design strategies for creating dynamic and multifunctional LM materials.
  • To discuss the reconfigurability (reprocessability, self-healing) and applications of these advanced materials.

Main Methods:

  • Review of supramolecular interfacial design strategies, including inorganic-organic interactions (hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds, metal coordination bonds).
  • Analysis of dynamic interfacial phase construction in LM-based soft materials.
  • Discussion of reconfigurability mechanisms such as reprocessability and self-healing.

Main Results:

  • Supramolecular interfacial design enables dynamic and multifunctional LM-based soft materials with improved mechanical properties.
  • Inorganic-organic interactions and dynamic interfacial phase construction are key to achieving desired material characteristics.
  • Demonstrated reconfigurability, including reprocessability and self-healing, in advanced LM-based soft materials.

Conclusions:

  • Supramolecular interfacial design is crucial for overcoming limitations and unlocking the potential of liquid metal-based soft materials.
  • These materials exhibit significant reconfigurability and hold promise for diverse advanced technological applications.
  • Future research should continue to explore novel interfacial strategies for further enhancing material performance and expanding applications.