Cool Labratory's "Liquid Metal"

[pswayne]

I just read the report about Cool Labratory's "Liquid Metal" thermal interface material corroding aluminum. It is well known (by chemists at least) that mercury corrodes aluminum. My guess is that the stuff has mercury in it, so I'd avoid it.

[Avid6eek]

Got any article links?

[bluegreenshxt]

Hmmm...Their website claims that it is 100% Mercury free and is absolutely not poisonous.

Wonder if they're telling the truth...but those results are pretty amazing...

[grahamf]

yeah, i read about that stuff too. here is a picture of some after effects from an article i read at frostytech.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/grahamf/liquidmetal-destroy2.jpg

here is a link to the article, which was originally on a french website link (http://www.frostytech.com/permalink.cfm?NewsID=46586)

if all that stuff is factual, then this stuff is not something you want to be messing around with if you have aluminum anywhere near where you are going to be using it.

[JoshKorn12]

I think I can shed some like on this subject. I want to say that Maximum Pc had a small, very brief, article about the proposed liquid metal cooling that was going to be used on video cards. I believe it was leadtek that actually poured money into this R&D to later find out that it would be ungodly expensive to supply a line of cards with this cooling method. It's supposed to be somewhere between water cooled and Liquid Nitrogen. Heh, and you thought water cooling was extreme.

The "liquid metal" is actually an element on the periodic table. It's called Gallium. At room temperature it is a solid, but if you are to hold in your hand it will melt. It has a very very low melting point as you can tell.

EDIT: From the sound of that article that was posted about the liquid metal corroding and most likely forming a compound, the poster does not have much of a knowledge base for chemistry. The "boiling" heatsink.....hmmm, didn't know people kept their rooms at 4472 degrees fahrenheit. :D

[Skorp]

Jinkies. That stuff would KILL normal heatsinks!

I think I can shed some like on this subject. I want to say that Maximum Pc had a small, very brief, article about the proposed liquid metal cooling that was going to be used on video cards. I believe it was leadtek that actually poured money into this R&D to later find out that it would be ungodly expensive to supply a line of cards with this cooling method. It's supposed to be somewhere between water cooled and Liquid Nitrogen. Heh, and you thought water cooling was extreme.

The "liquid metal" is actually an element on the periodic table. It's called Gallium. At room temperature it is a solid, but if you are to hold in your hand it will melt. It has a very very low melting point as you can tell.

EDIT: From the sound of that article that was posted about the liquid metal corroding and most likely forming a compound, the poster does not have much of a knowledge base for chemistry. The "boiling" heatsink.....hmmm, didn't know people kept their rooms at 4472 degrees fahrenheit.
Thats entirely true, and the project was abandoned in favour of something called nano-cooling, if I recall correctly. But uh, entirely the wrong kinda liquid metal here. This thread is about (evidently) doomy thermal interface material for use on user mountable heatsinks. As for 'boiling', he said it only looked like it was boiling. That was just the compound vigorously humping the aluminium, bubbling and eroding away. Whadda ya want from a French translation? :p

[gokusimpson]

nanocoolers was working on it, but ditched it for the costs.

nova beat you guys to it awhile ago...I did too. :p :p :p

http://forum.pcstats.com/showthread.php?t=30915

http://forum.pcstats.com/showthread.php?t=29711&page=2&pp=10