All Things Liquid Metal, LLC encapsulates the expertise that Dr. Claude B. Reed has acquired from his 42 years at Argonne National Laboratory, and his liquid metal MHD work he did at Purdue’s Magnetofluiddynamics Lab, under Prof. Paul S. Lykoudis and Lykoudis’ graduate student group. Dr. Reed has led several major and widely diverse technical areas of R&D, including liquid metal MHD (LMMHD) and free-surface LMMHD for fusion applications, liquid lithium ​“windowless” targets and strippers for the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) applications, materials and corrosion, high-power laser material processing (e.g. laser welding of refractory metal alloys, laser surface treatments and coatings, and laser drilling of rocks), and a NASA Space Power design project.

He is a primary subject matter expert for mechanical and EM pump technology for the resurgent world-wide SMR sodium fast reactor technology. He has written more than 100 liquid metal-relevant publications and reports.

Today, he is recognized as an expert on both sodium and lithium alkali metal systems, including engineering, handling, materials compatibility issues, and safety; having written the book chapter ​“Lithium Safety and Material Compatibility” in Lithium: Technology, Performance and Safety. He also wrote the ​“Convective Heat Transfer in Liquid Metals” chapter in Handbook of Single Phase Convective Heat Transfer; generally considered the standard handbook in this area.