Making Metal Wires – No Heating Required

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“A team of engineers from North Carolina State University looked to eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn) – a metal with a melting point of ∼15.5 °C – to produce thin wires at room temperature. Conventional electrical wires are fabricated by using large forces to repeatedly pull and elongate a metal rod that had been produced at high temperatures. The approach taken by Prof. Michael Dickey and his team is rather different.”

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