Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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This Lake Forest, CA-based company’s name—“LiquidMetal”—didn’t rouse much interest initially. Duh, all metal is liquid at some temperature. But this peculiar manganese-zirconium alloy’s party trick is that it can be injected into the type of highly detailed mold you might use for plastic materials and rapidly cooled. What you end up with is a part shaped to exceptionally tight tolerances that retains an amorphous solid crystalline structure (like glass) with no heat treating or secondary operations necessary. That gives it a plasticity that’s unusual in a metal, and permits consolidation of what might have been multiple parts (a housing and spring, for example) into a single part. Limitations? Large parts are not possible (11 ounces is about the max), and parts can’t get very hot without crystalizing and changing their properties. The car biz is interested in it for things like key fobs that convey the cool touch, heft, and machined quality of metal in a one-step operation. Another bonus—electromagnetic signals of all sorts pass right through LiquidMetal parts.

From:
http://www.thetopzones.co.uk/aggregator/categories/4

It’s a BS site, but I don’t remember a rumor about key fobs?