A crosshatch sample of wires created by self-assembling liquid steel particles
Julia Chang / North Carolina State College
Self-assembling electronics created from liquid steel particles might present a less expensive means of producing laptop chips, just by harnessing the essential physics of how fluids circulate via tiny buildings.
“The cost of entry in manufacturing electronics and building new chip fabrication plants in the US right now, we’re talking billions of dollars,” says Martin Thuo at North Carolina State College. “It’s not cheap.”
Thuo and his colleagues first created a mix of…
