The phrase
"liquid metal" refers to a substance that is usually solid but has become melted and turned into a form like a liquid, similar to water but made of metal instead.
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The extremely fine surface flair reminiscent
of liquid metal impressively models the surfaces on the body through its powerful contours.
Photos don't do justice to the A4's slim, horizontal dashboard with finely crafted lines, and decor that looks like it has been immersed
in liquid metal.
A new technique
using liquid metals to create integrated circuits that are just atoms thick could lead to the next big advance for electronics.
From liquid metal lame tops like this one (above) to metallic booties to beautiful, versatile gold and silver handbags.
If you're curious about what kind of energy storage innovations are in the lab, check out grid -
scale liquid metal batteries.
That would
enable liquid metal batteries to operate for many years without being replaced, thereby reducing the long - term cost of using them to help stabilize power grids around the world.
This slab is painted in an
almost liquid metal shade that also carries on to the steering wheel and the door panels tying up the design well.
As solids, metals have an orderly atomic structure;
in liquid metals, the arrangement becomes random, as in glass.
Researchers have
used liquid metal to create two - dimensional materials no thicker than a few atoms that have never before been seen in nature.
One alternative for lowering the cost has been to create the electrodes
from liquid metals.
These rewards change daily and can range from unexciting items to rare monsters such as
liquid metal slimes.
The curvy designed
Acer Liquid Metal equipped with metal on its body stainless steel of the battery cover.
While building a shape - shifting
liquid metal T - 1000 Terminator may still be far on the horizon, the pioneering work by researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is setting the foundation for moving beyond solid state electronics towards flexible and dynamically reconfigurable soft circuit systems.
Conceptual Study of Central Receiver Systems
with Liquid Metals as Efficient Heat Transfer Fluids
There were other interesting mentionable things too like using
liquid metal as a support structure for the display in either open or closed forms.
The work also explains how the electric charges that accumulate on the surface of
liquid metal droplets, together with their oxide skin, can be manipulated and used.
In addition to its unique fuel cycle, the TerraPower design employs a high - temperature,
liquid metal core cooling technology suited to a breeder reactor with «fast» neutron activity, rather than today's predominant reactors whose water cooling systems slow neutrons.
Just like all of the collection behind Eye of Horus these new
Liquid Metal Eyeliners where inspired by the ancient Egyptian Goddess and definitely live up to that with the stunning finish and longevity.
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«Using this discovery, we were able to create moving objects, switches and pumps that could operate autonomously — self -
propelling liquid metals driven by the composition of the surrounding fluid.»
Acer
Liquid Metal smartphone is releasing in UK running on Froyo & 800 MHz processor featuring Breeze UI, 3.1 inch capacitive touch display, 5MP LED Flash cam with HD 720p video recording capability, 802.11 n Wi - Fi with DLNA / UPnP and more.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed three - dimensional (3 - D) printing technology and techniques to create free - standing structures made of
liquid metal at room temperature.
The surface of the lacquer in «Hot Red» is to shimmer in the light thanks to a special composition
like liquid metal.
Acer launched a cut down version of their flagship
Android Liquid Metal mobile phone — the liquidmini, at CES.
In that earlier work, researchers discovered this bilayer interfacial phase that is responsible for the mysterious
liquid metal embrittlement in nickel - bismuth, but the exact atomic structures of the bilayers had not been determined at that time.
Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate
liquid metal into 2D shapes such as letters and a heart.
For the eyes I used the
Catrice Liquid Metal eye shadow in the shade «Look me in the Ice» what a quirky name.
The 2D sheets appear as a surface layer in gallium -
based liquid metals after the Hf, Gd, or Al is dissolved into the bulk alloy.
This process was studied, with both modeling and experimentation, for a single - phase tantalum - titanium alloy that was dealloyed by a
copper liquid metal.
A magnetic coil surrounds the tube and receives a short - lived electrical pulse to create a pressure within the tube that ejects a droplet of
liquid metal through the orifice.
«Putting droplets in another liquid with an ionic content can be used for breaking symmetry across them and allow them to move about freely in three dimensions, but so far we have not understood the fundamentals of
how liquid metal interacts with surrounding fluid,» Kalantar - zadeh said.
The system ionizes
liquid metal cesium and ejects little batches of ions to provide propulsion.
The step towards growing crystals by
levitating liquid metal is a promising one, but it is technically challenging to keep the liquid in place.
The pivotal technology that we're talking about is the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), which was developed in a government - sponsored program called the
Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor, or ALMR.
In its Report, «Pre-application Safety Evaluation: Report for the Power Reactor Innovative Small Module (PRISM)
Liquid Metal Reactor,» the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stated: «On the basis of the review performed, the staff, with the ACRS in agreement, concludes that no obvious impediments to licensing the PRISM design have been identified.»