✨ A New Class of Rotary Motor✨ : 🛠️ electric field drives surface-tension–induced flows in a liquid-metal droplet, in an electrochemical setting, generating vortices that rotate an inserted paddle to produce continuous motion without magnets or coils. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big Groper Sydney Sealife

Wendy Yu Act of Holding Dance 2020 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

What happens when you mix liquid metal with sugar? You get Christmas Sweets 🎄✨ ➡️We show how Liquid Metal gallium, with strong interfacial reactivity and excellent biocompatibility, presents a desirable bond formation trend when combined with glucose. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Merry Christmas Coogee, Sydney 26 December 2025

A happy cockatoo! Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia 7 December 2025

Flat white Sunday 7 am, Sydney

Moonika Sari, our PhD student, spent nearly 18 months peering inside tiny liquid-metal droplets to observe how dissolved platinum grows into small crystals using high-energy X-ray micro-computed tomography, she accomplished this extraordinary feat www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Homogenization of Post-Transition Metal Alloys into High-Entropy-Like Nanoparticles First author Dr Allioux ➡️New class of high-entropy nanoparticles based on post-transition metals, Ga, In, Sn, Zn, & Bi at core-level nanoscale homogenization at low-temperature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Observing growth of metallic crystals inside liquid metal solvents ->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

A powerful X-ray imaging technique has enabled direct observation of platinum crystal growth in liquid metal, offering new insights for material science and hydrogen production technologies. doi.org/hbcd76

Vat Photopolymerization of Liquid Metal Nanoparticle‐Integrated Hydrogels A nice work led by Ruirui Qiao First author Xumin Huang Our recent work in Advanced Functional Materials advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congrats to #USYD’s Prof Kourosh Kalantar Zadeh, Prof Anita Ho-Baillie & Prof PJ Cullen, named in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List recognising the world’s most influential researchers. Sydney Analytical CRF looks forward to continued collaborations. https://bit.ly/44jPSJk

Sydney 17 November 2025

Solar-powered water breakthrough?💧☀️ Researchers make liquid metal-polyphenol gel that absorbs nearly all sunlight, turning boiling seawater > fresh water w/ record efficiency. Backed by Sydney Microscopy & Microanalysis + Sydney Analytical, #USYD Core Research Facilities. https://bit.ly/49ykGte

A large St Andrew's cross spider (Argiope keyserlingi), a type of orb-weaver spider native to eastern Australia The University of Sydney 7 November 2025

A marvellous jacaranda tree ! Victoria Park - next to the University of Sydney 3rd of November 2025

National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide Botanical Garden

A very large size white cockatoo in the neighbourhood

My son’s vine of carnivorous plants (Nepenthes) with many dangling pitchers

Reflection! Rockpool South Coogee, Sydney

Morning bath ! Sydney, Australia 25 October, 2025

“Bridge Doping Unlocks Hidden Pathways in Liquid Metal Chemistry” We discussed another marvellous property of Liquid Metals - using secondary metallic constituents to access a raft of exciting liquid state alloys pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

This is a pretty cool chemistry innovation to address an important global need. Liquid metal, tannins, and graphene combined to make a highly efficient solar thermal absorber that can be used to generate potable water by evaporative desalination.

“Liquid Metal–Polyphenol Hybrids for Solar Steam Generation” After nearly a year and a half, Nieves Flores March‘s work is out advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This dog is just brutal !

A new recipe for transparent electronics 👓⚡ #USYD + UNSW researchers use a high-entropy liquid metal alloy to create ultrathin p-type gallium oxide sheets: highly transparent + conductive. A step toward flexible displays, LEDs & solar tech. Via Sydney Analytical CRF. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Kje73h#USYD

Another coffee !

One more coffee!

What is this one?!

What is this figure on my coffee?

A new pitcher for the small nepenthes

Our new work: "A Dynamically Stabilizing, All-Soft and Highly Stretchable Liquid Metal-Based Power Device" - A liquid metal based power source that works better and better when stretched and strained! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sarracenia’s Amazing Flowers Carnivorous Species Sydney, 2nd October 2025

RIP - Jane Goodall, who transformed understanding of humankind by studying chimpanzees, dies at 91 www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

Sydney researchers receive ATSE honours Professor @kouroshkalantar.bsky.social and Professor Michael Kassiou have been elected as 2025 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... #academicsky

Enchanted fairy house Sydney, 27 September 2025

Congrats to Prof Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh for being made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering. Sydney Analytical, a #USYD Core Research Facility, looks forward to continuing collaboration on his important work. https://bit.ly/4nFcKdA#USYD@kouroshkalantar.bsky.social

Congratulations to Professor @kouroshkalantar.bsky.social and Professor Michael Kassiou on being named as 2025 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 👏 Read more: go.sydney.edu.au/EFCffD #USYD #ATSEFellows

A brilliant comic strip by Tom Gauld for New Scientist

Coogee Beach Sydney, Australia

This white cockatoo looked exceptionally happy 😊

A lorikeet enjoying spring flowers in Sydney

Apple has dropped a wave of new releases at once: iPhone 17, ... and now 'AirPod 3 Pro' ➡️ live language translation enabled by Apple Intelligence ➡️ includes heart rate sensing during workouts ➡️ extended battery life ➡️ better noise cancelation ➡️ better design for ears www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Piccolo Sydney Saturday, 6th of September 2025

That’s wonderful! 🌱✨ A fully opened Nepenthes pitcher is always such a rewarding sight

“Telemetric Assessment and Comparison of Regional Colonic Metabolic Activity in Ambulant Healthy Individuals Using pH and Gas-Sensing Wireless Motility Capsules” First author Dr Phoebe Thwaites Corresponding author: Prof Peter Gibson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Review of Nanomaterial-Enabled Flexible Energy Storage First author Ms Yiming Zhao Yiming impressively searched and analyzed the topic and implemented her thoughts into this paper Published in ACS Applied Nano Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Rainbow of colours “Electroluminescent Liquid Metal Marbles for Reconfigurable Multi-Color Display” just published online First author: Ms Ruohan Yu - this is Ruohan’s last first author paper as a PhD student - we should call her Dr Yu very soon advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Variety of olives on display!