Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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I stand corrected that 105s is NOT Eontec formulation.

This is important as we now know LQMT has removed 105s and concentrated on LM105 and 106c. It appeared Eon formulation was never in the mix (publicly anyway). To my understanding, both LQMT and Eon will use 106c. 106c is being presented as newly joint R&B effort between Eon and LQMT hence it is shared IP between the two companies with no constrained by the Cross License Agreement. Same thing can be said about Eon diecast machine. LQMT now claims "higher level of automation" to the machine was another joint R&B effort between the two companies.

Check out latest Bruce Bromage Blog.

https://www.liquidmetal.com/exec-growing/

Our Industrial Grade EONTEC systems are producing parts with higher levels of automation than original configurations in China.

We use two alloy systems: LM105 for Medical Grade operations and 106c for Industrial Grade operations.

As we can see the slide from Lugee presentation in China last year that explicitly define what company owns what formula and what the formula's targeted market.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ppmE9uudMlRCOaxO87yBKQ



Note under the row of Vit 105(s), it is really two formulas there with one being 105 while another being 105s. Difference between the two is the inclusion of Rhenium (Re) for s grade.

105 is what LQMT refer as LM105.
106c apparently is newly developed from LQMT. Major difference is substitution of Titanium (Ti) with Niobium (Nb) for cost reduction. I suspect the new formulation is made with Zirconium Sponge (instead of pure Zr) to cut cost. Zircon material that Eon shipped out might just be that.

Materion happens to have similar one named as 106a.

Note Eon has made zircon shipment to Houston (possibly Materion). Materion is also listed as Tesla supplier alongside with LQMT. This implies to me LQMT is now producing parts for Tesla with 106c formulation with Materion in the loop.

Eon formula (Liquidmorphium) which has a granted patent in US/China is named as Z-2. This is Silver (Ag) base.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9896753B2/en




Reference from Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidmetal

Commercial alloys
A range of zirconium-based alloys have been marketed under this trade name. Some example compositions are listed below, in molar percent:

An early alloy, Vitreloy 1:
Zr: 41.2 Be: 22.5 Ti: 13.8 Cu: 12.5 Ni: 10
A variant, Vitreloy 4 (Vit4):
Zr: 46.75 Be: 27.5 Ti: 8.25 Cu: 7.5 Ni: 10
Vitreloy 105 (Vit105):
Zr: 52.5 Ti: 5 Cu: 17.9 Ni: 14.6 Al:10
A more recent development (Vitreloy 106a), which forms glass under less rapid cooling:
Zr: 58.5 Cu: 15.6 Ni: 12.8 Al: 10.3 Nb: 2.8

Liquidmorphium
The Liquidmorphium is a liquidmetal, one of metal alloys created at the California Institute of Technology, which includes zirconium, copper, aluminum, nickel and silver. The most important is that according to the manufacturer qualities are:

>>it is claimed to be more durable than steel and titanium
>>extremely resistant to daily use and corrosion.
>>improving shock absorption and preventing breakage of various usage
>>described as an "unbendable" metal that's stronger than titanium or steel and more resistant to shock and screen breakages.

Turing Robotic Industries announced in 2015 that they would use liquidmorphium for molding a single unit ultra-durable chassis for their mobile phone. Turing later announced several delays for the product, eventually canceling the entire product. Turing Robotic Industries sent replacement devices to some of the people who had made pre-orders but those phones were told NOT to be made of liquidmorphium. To date there has not been any actual appliances of the alloy.

Notable is that the alloy itself is only mentioned in publications that are either from Turing Robotic Industries or then using the publications from Turing Robotic Industries as their only source. This means that the properties of the alloy have not been confirmed to live up to the promises.