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Liquidmetal: Amorphous Metal Alloy

Liquidmetal Technologies Inc. is a contract manufacturer that uses a patented injection molding process to produce amorphous metal components. Amorphous metals are a class of alloys developed to maintain an amorphous atomic structure in a solid state. Also known as bulk metalic glass, this alloy allows you to mold precision parts with ultra low shrinkage and achieve great mechanical properties.

Precision Netshape Molding

Contoured Geometry

Net Shape Molding

Structural Housing

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Flatness + Straightness

Flatness and Straightness

Why Use Liquidmetal?

Strength, hardness, elasticity, and corrosion resistance are achieved directly out of the mold without secondary processes. This technology can be used in a variety of markets, typically making parts that fit in the palm of your hand.

Advantages

Yield Strength

Hardness

High Elasticity

Corrosion Resistance

Dimensional Tolerance

Reduce Machining

Eliminate

Corrosion

Plating

Dewaxing

Heat Treating

Coining

Debind / Sinter

Advanced Engineering Material

Yield Strength

The amorphous structure of Liquidmetal not only gives it incredible strength but it reaches ultimate strength without any plastic deformation.
Liquidmetal Yield Strength

Hardness

Most alloys require a heat-treating process to achieve a usable hardness. Liquidmetal is naturally hard and cannot be heat-treated any further.
Liquidmetal Hardness

Low Modulus of Elasticity

Normally when a material is very strong and hard it is also very rigid and brittle. The amorphous atomic structure of Liquidmetal opposes this phenomenon and has the elasticity of a spring steel.

Liquidmetal Elasticity

Strength to Weight

Liquidmetal has 85-90% the density of Stainless Steel. Along with reducing wall sections with the higher strength material, there are opportunities for significant weight reduction.

Liquidmetal Strength to Weight

How Liquidmetal Parts are Made

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Molding Process

Melt

Molding Process

Mold

Molding Process

Eject

Liquidmetal is a Zirconium alloy that was designed specifically for injection molding. Unlike other high-strength alloys, our alloy melts at a low temperature which allows it to be molded within our machines.

Other molding processes for high-strength alloys require complicated systems of combining and removing polymer powders from the substrate or creating single-use sand casted molds for each part.

How else is Liquidmetal unique?

Non-Magnetic

The amorphous atomic structure of Liquidmetal makes it non-magnetic, and it cannot be magnetized.

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Acoustic

The lack of grain boundaries provides an efficient transmission of acoustic wave energy uniform across a wide band of frequencies. Liquidmetal can increase audible decibels, sustain, and timbre.

Precision

Liquidmetal molds with minimum shrinkage so the parts achieve the precision of CNC machining. It can also mold flat parts within microns without warping.

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