author keywords: EGaIn; electrocapillarity; electrorheology; dewetting; spreading

TL;DR: This work suggests that the wetting properties of surface oxides—which are ubiquitous on most metals and semiconductors—are intrinsic “surfactants” that can be harnessed to induce previously unidentified electrohydrodynamic phenomena for manipulating liquid metal alloys based on gallium. (via Semantic Scholar)