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Metallic Glass Coatings Improve Power Plant, Oil Rig Productivity
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
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Overview
A tough, durable, versatile coating with the atomic structure of glass helps keep power plants running. NASA has been working on the material, called liquid metal or metallic glass, at least since the 1980s. That work continues today at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Metallurgy Facility. Spring, Texas-based Liquidmetal Coatings LLC, which licenses the original NASA-funded technology, created a range of coatings that protect vital components at power plants, petrochemical refineries, and oil and gas drilling sites around the world.