Of course, that means even if it lives up to the hype, you'll probably see this liquid metal thermal grease keeping huge server farms frosty before it ever hits the shelves for you to slather on your home PC's Intel or AMD processor.
"The power consumption of cooling infrastructure for energy-intensive data centers and other large electronic systems is skyrocketing," said Guihua Yu, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering's Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute. "That trend isn't dissipating anytime soon, so it's critical to develop new ways, like the material we've created."