uh oh, looks like all your knives are gonna be obselete

More importantly, if there's no one around to hear the anvil cut in half, will it make a ringing sound?
 
Might not cut the anvil into but sounds like a great way to repair the worn face of one.
 
Of course that story is 5 years old (August 7, 2001) and we haven't heard about anyone using that coating, so I guess it's not catching on real fast. I'm sure there's a practical reason why.
 
mrstenoien said:
http://newsdesk.inl.gov/press_releases/2001/08-07R&D100_award_2001.htm

I especially like the part where theyre talking about crystals slightly larger than an atom
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I wouldn't start counting those chickens just yet, Anybody remember "Liquid metal" As far as I know there is still only 1 or 2 people using it. To date No cast blades produced from it yet, (that was it's big claim to fame)

I will paraphrase Mark Twain; "Reports of the demise of the steel knife have been greatly exagerated"
 
Researchers create the Super Hard Steel coating by transforming steel alloy into a non-crystalline metallic glass. "We essentially coach mother nature to frustrate the atoms in the alloy, and capture a snapshot in time when the atoms have a liquid structure in order to form a very hard and strong solid," said INEEL materials scientist Daniel Branagan.
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This IS Liquid Metal, or at least a very similar mechanism (vitreous alloy). Discover Magazine did an article on it a year or two ago. I handed it to my boss and he immediately tried to get a material sample to experiment on. I know that some knifemakers got pieces of the original LiquidMetal and had moderate success with it, but I guess since LiquidMetal2, the company wants to do the actual manufacturing themselves with the customer footing the bill for the tooling. :jerkit: No samples. We figured that with a posture like that, the company was trying to limit itself to customers who bought into the hype, so we just went on using A2.
 
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