Observation of a Large Slip Effect in the Nanoscale Flow of Highly Viscous Supercooled Liquid Metals.

Understanding and controlling the flow of materials confined in channels play important roles in science and engineering. The general no-slip boundary condition will result in it being more challenging to drive the flow as the channel size decreases to the nanoscale, especially for highly viscous liquids. Here, we report the observation of a large boundary slip in the nanoscale flow of highly viscous supercooled liquid metals (with viscosities of ≲10