Researchers at RMIT University have created "liquid metal marbles" -- droplets of liquid metal coated in nanoparticles -- in a world-first breakthrough that advances research into soft electronics and industrial sensing technologies.
This video shows the behaviour of a liquid metal marble BEFORE its surface is coated with inorganic nanoparticles, and AFTER.
The liquid metal marbles are like flexible ball bearings with extraordinary physical properties - enduring high impacts without disintegrating and tolerating high temperatures. They operate like semiconducting-conducting systems -- the base of transistors -- and are compatible with micro and nano-fluidic systems.
Read more about this research - http://bit.ly/liquidmarblesresearch
Find out more about the research institute - http://www.rmit.edu.au/research/institutes/platformtechnologies
Find out more about RMIT - http://www.rmit.edu.au
