Liquid Metal Technology, page

My friend who works at nasa has been following this company for a while and told me about it the other day. Trying to get me to invest in the cheap stock price. I don't play the market anymore but I still find this stuff interesting.

Twice the strength of Titanium

liquidmetal.com...

Liquidmetal alloys are a revolutionary class of materials that redefine performance, process, and design paradigms. Liquidmetal alloys represent the first enabling materials technology since the creation of thermoplastics and possess characteristics that make them superior in many ways to other popular high performance materials. First, they have an "amorphous" atomic structure, which is unprecedented for bulk structural metals. Second, they include a multi-component chemical compositions, which are optimized for various properties and processes. Finally, our metal alloys are the first commericially available metals with process technologies similar to plastics

Apple has bought the rights to use this stuff in consumer electronics.

Seems to have alot of uses such as a possible replacement for depleted uranium in military applications. . Interesting stuff.

This video shows its strange properties.

These materials are, largely, known as "Metallic Glass." en.wikipedia.org...

The main difference between metals and glasses is their molecular structure. Metals have a crystalline structure while glasses have no particular structure.

Depending upon the material and the application - metallic glass is stronger and more durable than their classic counterpart.

reply to post by satoriku

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It's rumored (I know... Apple+rumors=Duh) the new iPhone will be housed in Liquidmetal.

It will certainly see application in their products - though just how close metallic glass is to marketable applications is a bit of a loose end.

Apple has been investing considerably in new glass developments (of the non-metal variety):

technorati.com...

www.immersivetech.org...

Curved glass has recently captured their attention - their new headquarters boastfully built to: "not have a single piece of flat glass in it."

While I generally detest Apple and the atmosphere it conjures - they've placed themselves quite well in the materials market with regards to mobile and future technology.

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If we hear about it, and Apple consider it as a new alloy for toys they offer, it simply means that military already considered it, tested it and rejected hence applications for General Population.

No. The Cold War has been over for 20 years. Where the military used to have their hands in a large portion of the ongoing research 50 years ago; we now have, essentially, investment brokers who tour the civilian and private research sectors looking for applicable technologies to invest in.

Metallic glass has been around since the 60s. The restrictive manufacturing process made them very narrow in their scope of application - but it has been used in high performance equipment used by both industry and military.

Probably depleted uranium is much cheaper, nevermind irradiating civilian houses and cities.

Metallic glass has zero application to bullets.

It does, however, have application in anti-ballistic shielding:

www.dailymail.co.uk...

Depleted uranium is also used quite sparingly in only a few munitions. Not that it is any more of a biological hazard than the lead used in a large portion of the munitions.

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