Liquid Metal Microstructures: Programmable Liquid Metal Microstructures for Multifunctional Soft Thermal Composites (Adv. Funct. Mater. 25/2020)

In article number 2000832, Michael D. Bartlett and co-workers develop liquid metal (LM) elastomer soft composites with programmable microstructures. The elongated and aligned LM droplets are created in stress-free composites using an innovative mechanical reconfiguration and thermal relaxation scheme. The multifunctional LM programmed elastomer displays extreme compliance and thermal conductivity that enables exceptional thermal management in flexible and wearable devices.