Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Venkso]

Please everyone, don't get too excited by the ludicrous PR about iPhone 5C having a scratch resistant LM coating.

From a basic physics standpoint, all metals have a bunch of "free" electrons floating around their atoms. Which gives them the two properties: a) they conduct electric current, (b) it makes them opaque and reflective. Metallic materials cannot look like plastic, at least in this universe, even if it were just a light thin coating. (Unless they are sparsely coated or with gaps)

From the videos, I see the material clearly looks plastic. It absolutely cannot have even the thinnest metal coating on its surface and still maintain the look of plastic. Unless I am missing some detail about nitride liquid metal technology.

By which logic does nitride coating on stainless steel translates to nitride coated Liquidmetal on plastic?

My guess would be - the scratch proof coating is ceramic.