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Metallic solids such as crystals of copper, aluminum, and iron are formed by metal atoms. The structure of metallic crystals is often described as a uniform distribution of atomic nuclei within a “sea” of delocalized electrons. The atoms within such a metallic solid are held together by a unique force known as metallic bonding that gives rise to many useful and varied bulk properties.
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Multifunctional Liquid Metal-2D Material Composites: Structural Design, Properties, and Applications in Advanced

Jingbin Yang¹, Zhenqiang Ye², Guangming Chen²

¹School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.

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|December 1, 2025

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Liquid metal-2D material composites offer unified thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties for advanced electronics. Strategies for interfacial enhancement and structural design are key to overcoming challenges and enabling next-generation applications.

Keywords:

2D materials advanced electronics liquid metal multifunctional integration performance enhancement

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Nanotechnology
Electronics

Background:

High-integration electronics require materials with combined thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties.
Liquid metals (LMs) offer conductivity and self-healing but face leakage issues.
2D materials enhance LM structural stability and functionality, creating advanced composites.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically review liquid metal-2D material composites.
To explore interfacial enhancement, structural designs, properties, and applications.
To identify challenges and future directions for these materials.

Main Methods:

Review of interfacial enhancement strategies: oxidation, doping, grafting, mechanochemistry.
Analysis of structural designs: blended, core-shell, layered, 3D networks.
Summary of properties: mechanical robustness, thermal and electrical conductivity.
Categorization of applications: thermal management, EMI shielding, sensors, energy storage.

Main Results:

Interfacial strategies improve LM-2D material wettability and dispersion.
Diverse structural designs yield composites with tunable properties.
Synergistic properties enable applications in thermal, electrical, and coupled domains.
Significant progress in developing multifunctional LM-2D material composites.

Conclusions:

LM-2D material composites show great promise for next-generation electronics.
Challenges in scalable fabrication, reliability, and recycling need addressing.
Future research should focus on novel systems, smart materials, advanced manufacturing, and AI-assisted design.