Programmable Continuous Electrowetting of Liquid Metal for Reconfigurable Electronics (Adv. Mater. 2/2026)
Programmable Liquid-Metal Electronics In the Research Article (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202506383), Wedyan Babatain and colleagues report a programmable continuous electrowetting strategy to steer gallium-based liquid metal on graphitic substrates by tuning its electrochemical potential on-demand. This enables surface-enabled valves, size-dependent sorting, and feedback sensing. A two-layer reconfigurable circuit demonstrates liquid metal as dynamic interconnects for sequential and parallel component activation and healing of broken traces, enabling physical hardware updates.
Authors
- Cédric Honnet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2152-1756)
- Deiaa M. Harraz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6671-6624)
- H. Ishii
- Ozgun Kilic Afsar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5703-2973)
- Wedyan Babatain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7526-5749)
- Christine Y. Park
- Sarah Lov
- Michael D. Dickey
- Jean‐Baptiste Labrune
Institutions
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2026-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.71896
- Primary Topic
- Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00