Nanowerk  December 10, 2022 Nanoscale structures can aid electronic manufacturing, make materials stronger yet lighter, or aid environmental clean-ups by binding to toxins. An international team of researchers (Australia, New Zealand) developed an extraction method achieved by applying a voltage to the liquid metal solution while vacuum filtrating. The resulting crystals can have intricate morphologies like snowflakes. They used the low-melting-temperature Ga as a “metallic solvent” to synthesize a range of flake-like Zn crystals. They extracted the metallic crystals from the liquid metal solvent by reducing its surface tension using a combination of electrocapillary modulation and vacuum filtration. The crystals […]