Liquid metal enabled combinatorial heat transfer science: toward unconventional extreme cooling

Xiaohu Yang1, Liu Jing1
1Beijing Key Lab of Cryo-Biomedical Engineering and Key Lab of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

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