"Why ultra thin Liquidmetal matter"
One of Eontec machine strength is ultra thin output at 0.3mm. While "thin" itself can drive a lot of unique application, but more importantly it can drive down "cost".
For 500g ingot, Eontec 500C machine can create sheet size at 6.8g/cm3 = 73.53 cm3
For 0.3mm thickness, it can create sheet size of 2451 cm2 which can produce 50 cell phone case
For 0.8mm thickness, it can only create sheet size of 919 cm2 which can produce 18 cell phone case
Hence for the same 500 gram raw material, there is almost 3 times cost savings for being "thin".
Q: Consumers pursue "thin and light" Consumer Electronic products, but Zirconium-based Liquid Metal is more heavier than other similar products, how do you plan to solve this problem in the future?
A: I take the car door shaft as an example. A door has two axes, each axis is about 400-500 grams or so. Now we can not switch to amorphous, we first explore the feasibility. Amorphous Alloy strength is about 2.5 times to High strength Steel. Relative strength for Amorphous Alloy is about 6.5, iron is 7.8 hence 20% heavier. Put it all together, it means that 1/3 volume of Amorphous can replace 1 volume of High strength Steel strength. 4 doors 4 kg, plus the front of the rear 6 kg, theoretically can be reduced to 4 kg. Because its unit refers to the strength is much stronger than other varieties, which is the basis for weight loss.
Q: What about Consumer Electronics such as mobile phones?
A: The reason is the same, cell phone case we make now is 0.8mm, but in fact 0.3mm is strong enough. We can do very thin enough to achieve this required strength.
