{"id":25050,"date":"2016-04-26T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/micro-sized-liquid-metal-particles-for-heat-free-soldering-developed"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:30","slug":"micro-sized-liquid-metal-particles-for-heat-free-soldering-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/micro-sized-liquid-metal-particles-for-heat-free-soldering-developed","title":{"rendered":"Micro-sized, Liquid-metal Particles for Heat-free Soldering Developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micro-sized-liquid-metal-particles-for-heat-free-soldering-developed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal innovation: \u201cHow do you do very high-level science or engineering with very little?\u201d said Thuo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Ames Laboratory. \u201cHow can you solve a problem with the least amount of resources?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That goal has Thuo and his research group using their materials expertise to study soft matter, single-molecule electronics and renewable energy production. A guiding principle is that, whenever possible, nature should do part of the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature has a beautiful way of working for us,\u201d he said. \u201cSelf-assembly and ambient oxidation are great tools in our designs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cemag.us\/news\/2016\/04\/micro-sized-liquid-metal-particles-heat-free-soldering-developed\">http:\/\/www.cemag.us\/news\/2016\/04\/micro-sized-liquid-metal-pa...-developed<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal innovation: \u201cHow do you do very high-level science or engineering with very little?\u201d said Thuo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Ames Laboratory. \u201cHow can you solve a problem with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,38,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67634,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions\/67634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}