Liquid metals, such as gallium and gallium-based alloys, have a sufficiently low melting point to remain liquid at temperatures near or slightly above room temperature. The low-melting-trait and unique properties of liquid metals make them ideally suitable for enabling a wide range of material systems and technologies. Liquid metal smart materials and devices refer to novel materials and systems that leverage these metallic liquids to achieve advanced material functionalities and applications that are highly sought after in next-generation flexible electronics, soft robotics, biomedical and wearable devices, stimuli-responsive materials, energy systems and nanotechnology. This special issue is dedicated to showcasing the most recent advancements in the fast-expanding filed of liquid metal smart materials and devices. We encourage submissions of original contributions covering, but not limited to, the following topics:
Design of novel liquid metal-based materials and systems
Unconventional phenomena and properties of liquid metals
Liquid metal-based flexible electronics and soft robotics
Liquid metal-based stimuli-responsive materials and devices
We welcome high-quality review and research articles. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the publication guidelines of the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials. Manuscripts submitted for publication in this special issue must not have been previously published or under consideration elsewhere.
Guest Editors
Dr. Jianbo Tang
Lecturer & ARC DECRA Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
UNSW Sydney
Email: jianbo.tang@unsw.edu.au
Dr Jianbo Tang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney, Australia). He received a Bachelor’s degree in 2011 from Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi'an, China) and a PhD degree in 2016 from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). He was a postdoctoral research associate at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) from 2016 to 2018 and at UNSW from 2018 to 2021. Dr Tang is also an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence FLEET. Working at the crossroad of materials science, thermal/applied physics, chemical engineering, metallurgy, and nanotechnology, Dr Tang’s research encompasses both fundamental and applied sciences of low-melting-temperature metals and alloys known as liquid metals. He has (co)authored >80 peer-reviewed publications, with first author and/or corresponding author articles in high-profile journals including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Synthesis, and Nature Communications. His publications have accumulated >3500 citations and an h-index of 34.
Dr. Hongzhang Wang
Assistant Professor
Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University
wanghz@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn
Hongzhang Wang is an Assistant Professor at Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2021 and then continued his postdoctoral research as a Shui Mu Tsinghua Scholar at Tsinghua University from 2021 to 2023. He is committed to developing responsive liquid machines and their interdisciplinary applications. He has (co)authored >40 peer-reviewed publications, with first author and/or corresponding author articles in high-profile journals including Matter, Advanced Materials, and Accounts of Materials Research. His publications have accumulated >2100 citations. He received many awards including Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarship (the highest student honor in Tsinghua), Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Beijing City, and Outstanding Young Academic Presentation at the China Materials Conference.
Dr. Xuyang Sun
Associate Professor
School of Engineering Medicine Beihang University
sunxuy@buaa.edu.cn
Xuyang Sun is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering Medicine of Beihang University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2018. Then she joined the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a postdoctoral fellow where she works in the interdisciplinary fields of material science, tumor ablation, and soft electronics. Dr. Sun has published more than 40 SCI papers, including Advanced materials, Accounts of Materials Research, Advanced Science, Biomaterials, etc. Her research interest includes liquid metal, nanomaterials, tumor therapies, and cybernetic electronics.
IJSNM Journal Metrics
3.9 (2022) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
9 days avg. from submission to first decision
29 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
25% acceptance rate
All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo a full peer-review; the Guest Advisor for this collection will not be handling the manuscripts (unless they are an Editorial Board member). Please review the journal scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.
The deadline for submitting manuscripts is
1 August 2024.
Please contact IJSNM Editorial Office at ijsnm_journal@hit.edu.cn or call at 0451－86413401 with any queries regarding manuscript submission.
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