jean-baptiste labrune
work

reconfigurable liquid metal


2026 · MIT

advanced materials, vol. 38 no. 2 — cover

Cover of the journal Advanced Materials showing a liquid-metal circuit
Advanced Materials 2/2026, cover
Scientific figure: OR and NOR logic gates, measurement plots and photographs of the channels
logic gates built from LIG valves and interconnects

Gallium steered on laser-induced graphene: circuits that change their shape and their logic.

Programmable continuous electrowetting tunes the electrochemical potential of a gallium-based liquid metal on demand. Under a fixed external field, the metal moves in a direction set by that potential, on a substrate patterned with laser-induced graphene — conductive, and non-wetting to the metal.

Valves that open and close on demand, size-dependent droplet sorting, feedback sensing, self-healing interconnects, fluidic logic gates.