Coogee, Sydney New Holland Honeyeater, a species of honeyeater found in southern Australia

"Nanoporous Liquid Metal Silica Aerogels for Solar Energy Capture and Heat Transfer" Combining liquid metal with silica aerogel, for solar energy capture and even potentially valuable for a wide range of other applications. In ACS Applied Nano Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A classical ‘Experience Curve Effect (ECE)’ for the battery production and cost ➡️ECE refers to the observation that as companies gain experience in producing a product, the cost per unit falls by a certain percentage (often 10–25%) each time cumulative production doubles.

Ostwald ripening observation of metallic crystals within liquid metals ➡️Goverened by solid-phase diffusion, we studied how metallic crystals take their shapes within the boundaries of micropatterns ➡️Published in Nano Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Sunlight + seawater + liquid gallium = green hydrogen 🔆💧 Researchers show gallium can rapidly produce clean H₂ at low temperatures; then be recycled to do it again. A circular approach to green hydrogen. Via Sydney Analytical + Sydney Microscopy & Microanalysis CRFs. 👉 go.nature.com/4kxcRb0

A report by ‘Forbes’ about our new paper: “Discovery of the Week: Hydrogen From Light And Liquid Metal” www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

Australian scientists claim breakthrough in making green hydrogen from seawater and freshwater reneweconomy.com.au/australian-s...

This is how liquid metal Terminators got created.

A new sunlight-driven process using liquid gallium enables efficient, circular hydrogen production from seawater or freshwater, offering a scalable approach to sustainable green hydrogen. doi.org/hbn3fz

✨ 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...

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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....

“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

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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