Their new Liquid Metal Battery Corporation is attracting investors that include Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla.
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This is a liquid metal and the desire to use it comes from the same as the above benefits.
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The Microsoft Surface tablet is constructed from magnesium and manufactured using liquid metal.
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But when it comes to using the turbulent flow of liquid metal rather than well-behaved cables and wires, the experiment becomes rather harder.
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Microcapsules in the gold circuit released liquid metal in response to damage, swiftly restoring electrical conductivity, and bringing self-repairing electronic chips a step closer.
The answer is that the phrase liquid metal means two rather different things and one meaning applies to Microsoft and the other to Apple.
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This is going to be slightly confusing for everyone out there now that Microsoft has announced the Surface, the case of which is made of liquid metal.
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There are a number of different reactors in use, most commonly water-cooled pressurised or boiling water reactors - though other reactor types are kept cool with the help of liquid metal, gas or molten salt.
Liquid metal is a way of cooling the metal very quickly indeed (early methods used cooling of millions of degrees per second) and so getting your metal into a solid state before the crystals could form.
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HCD-14 Genesis conveys a fluidic-precision, liquid-metal design language.
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In France, Maria Pergay rendered sculptural forms in painstakingly handworked stainless steel, drawing out metal's liquid quality.
These are linings that are used to protect the vessels that carry molten metal from the intense heat of the liquid.
In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.
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By combining an artist and scientific quest, the two professors at Michigan State University found that a certain type of metal-loving bacteria can transform high amounts of the toxic chemical compound gold chloride from a liquid into solid 24-karat gold.
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Officials packed long metal tubes -- called "carrier pigeons" -- with oxygen, vaccines and sustenance, liquid proteins and vitamins at first because the men were not ready for solid food.
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