2020 journal article

Overcoming Rayleigh–Plateau instabilities: Stabilizing and destabilizing liquid-metal streams via electrochemical oxidation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(32), 19026–19032.

By: M. Song  n, K. Kartawira  n, K. Hillaire n , C. Li  n, C. Eaker n, A. Kiani  n, K. Daniels  n, M. Dickey  n

author keywords: liquid metal; Rayleigh instabilities; EGaIn; jetting; jets
TL;DR: Electrochemical anodization significantly lowers the effective tension of a stream of metal, transitioning it from droplets to long (long lifetime and length) wires with 100-μm diameters without the need for high velocities. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 9, 2020

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