Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Nerd Beautiful]

On the Apple Car front, my favorite LM patent is this one, which describes making LM sheets using a float process originally designed for glass. These sheets could then be stamped to become anything... laptop bodies, auto frames and body panels, smartphone backs, etc.

In my dreams we're all looking in the wrong direction. Meanwhile Apple has been secretly acquiring and redeveloping several glass manufacturing facilities to have them focus on sheet LM production.



https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/17/patent-reveals-apples-process-for-mass-producing-liquidmetal-alloy

The Liquidmetal patent, entitled "Bulk Amorphous Alloy Sheet Forming Processes," describes creating sheets of the alloy by using a float glass process. That's the same way that window glass is also produced in bulk. The invention describes a molten sheet of bulk metallic glass traveling through a cooled conveyer. That sheet would then be cooled to form a "bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet." By using the float glass process, a float plant could operate nonstop for between 10 and 15 years, the patent claims. This would allow it to make as much as 6,000 kilometers of bulk metallic glass per year sized up to 3 meters wide and up to 15 millimeters thick.