The synthetic droplets contain the enzyme urease which catalyzes the breakdown of urea into ammonia, which has a high pH-value. Droplets migrate due to the pH gradient, from low to high, because of ...

Liquid metal droplets fuse themselves into stretchable circuits at room temperature, driven only by surface tension gradients during solvent evaporation.

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