Room-temperature soldering. Soldering is an important fabrication process, which joins two metal surfaces by melting the solder metal. However, when the joints are small (at micron scale), heating becomes challenging. One possible solution is to use liquid-metal as the solder to bypass heating. HMOE has found that coating the liquid-metal with molecules can change the time required for solidification. We are curious to learn about this for applications: What molecules can speed up the room-temperature soldering? What is the relationship between molecules and solidification times?
