Liquidmetal
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thumb|A USB flash drive with a Liquidmetal case.
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- Instance of
- amorphous metal
- Subclass of
- alloy
- Named after
- liquid metal
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- different from
- liquid metal
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thumb|A USB flash drive with a Liquidmetal case.
Liquidmetal and Vitreloy are commercial names of a series of amorphous metal alloys developed by a California Institute of Technology (Caltech) research team and marketed by Liquidmetal Technologies. Liquidmetal alloys combine a number of desirable material features, including high tensile strength, excellent corrosion resistance, very high coefficient of restitution and excellent anti-wearing characteristics, while also being able to be heat-formed in processes similar to thermoplastics. Despite the name, they are not liquid at room temperature.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liquidmetal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.