Using electrochemistry, North Carolina State University
researchers have created a reconfigurable, voltage-controlled liquid metal
antenna that may play a huge role in future mobile devices and the coming
Internet of Things
(May 20, 2015) Researchers have held tremendous interest in
liquid metal electronics for many years, but a significant and unfortunate
drawback slowing the advance of such devices is that they tend to require
external pumps that can't be easily integrated into electronic systems.
So a team of North Carolina State University (NCSU)
researchers set out to create a reconfigurable liquid metal antenna controlled
by voltage only, which they describe in the Journal of Applied Physics, from
AIP Publishing.