What is liquid metal? The IPhone's pin is always using this material.

When the iphone 5 was not listed last year, it was rumored that the iphone 5 would use the Liquidmetal material shell, but the final product did not use the material and technology ...

It seems HTC is taking the first step, and it is understood that HTC plans to use liquidmetal material for their new smartphones in the second half of the year. So what exactly is Liquidmetal, attracted two international manufacturers to it so Pro Lai.

Liquidmetal in fact, currently in the mobile phone industry is not a lot of applications, in addition to the IPhone Kari has been the use of liquidmetal materials, other manufacturers do not specifically indicate to use this material on the phone. I do not know if Apple and HTC use the liquidmetal material to do mobile phone shell, can make it in the mobile phone industry overnight fame!

Actually speaking of Liquidmetal, people will think of the Devil Terminator 2 in the T1000, looks like very high-tech appearance. In fact, Liquidmetal is a liquid metal, is zirconium, titanium, copper, nickel, aluminum alloy of five metals, at room temperature is solid, and gold and silver copper and iron and other common metal is no different. Because it is a variety of metal-mixed amorphous alloys, liquidmetal often behaves much like glass, without a fixed melting point (which will gradually soften), and is equally fragmented, rather than deformed, by a strong impact. But also because there is no crystal boundary, Liquidmetal has a high finish, high hardness, high elasticity, high corrosion resistance and other additional benefits. Surface finish compared with magnesium, aluminum, titanium, steel, liquidmetal hardness comparison of aluminum, titanium, steel, liquidmetal elastic comparison

The above icons all indicate that the liquidmetal in smoothness, hardness, elasticity are much higher than magnesium, aluminum, titanium, steel and other metals. In addition, its ability to resist corrosion is very strong, will liquidmetal corrosion salt spray test for more than 336 hours, it still conforms to the ASTM B-117 standard.

Unfortunately, so far Liquidmetal's application record is not brilliant. The previous major application was to make the club head of a golf club, and to use it to make the ball go farther. Unfortunately, because of its fragile relationship, many people spend a lot of money to buy home, after a dozen suddenly saw their own rod head "burst." So the production company put money to improve the composition of the alloy, and improve the mode of production, Vitreloy was the U.S. Army to do armor-piercing warheads, NASA was Genesis spacecraft to do the solar wind collectors, BP to do the drilling platform of the drill.

The liquidmetal look amazing after the improvement, don't they? But the material is very expensive. IPhone5 did not use the liquidmetal material to do the phone after the shell is not because of this reason? If this is the case, HTC's next generation smartphone if it really uses the liquidmetal material after the shell is really a big expense ah!