Smooth flow: When liquid metal is released into water, its high surface tension normally makes it form droplets. Applying a low voltage reduces this surface tension, allowing the liquid metal to stream out in hairlike filaments. (Courtesy: Minyung Song, NC State University)
Researchers in the US have eliminated the instabilities in liquid metal streams for the first time,
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