Energy-converting materials that connect the physical world with the digital world.
We engineer inert rare-earth crystals to convert energy and provide measurable information – then develop the intellectual property that turns those responses into useful systems.
“Once in a while, you get shown the lightRobert Hunter · words / Jerry Garcia · music · “Scarlet Begonias”
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.”
Convert energy. Provide information.
Intelligent Material are inert crystals capable of converting energy. We engineer the crystal itself – changing composition, rare-earth ratios, size, temporal response, magnetic behavior, optical power-density response and core/shell interactions.
The result is a material that can become part of the product itself and carry a persistent, machine-readable identity from manufacture through the supply chain and into the field.
How it worksOne puzzle piece.
Countless uses.
Authentication, medicine, defense, transportation, quantum systems and manufacturing grow from the Intelligent Material platform. Spectroscopy sits alongside them as a separate molecular-sensing platform developed with SRI and Princeton.
Authentication
Give products an intrinsic identity for operations, traceability, brand protection, gray-market control and verification.
→ 03Defense
Authentication, marking, sensing, diagnostics and traceability for materials, parts and systems.
→ 04Transportation
Make roads, sidewalks and depot markings machine-readable for positioning, GPS correction, bus alignment and pedestrian guidance.
→ 05Spectroscopy
A separate mid-infrared platform using QCL / ICL sources and infrared detectors to read molecular fingerprints directly.
→ 06Quantum & Optical
Custom crystal systems for optical computing, storage, quantum interfaces, interferometers and photonic devices.
→Program the crystal. Program the response.
The same fundamental material can be engineered for different wavelengths, lifetimes, excitation intensities, magnetic properties and physical environments.
That is why Intelligent Material can support both energy conversion and information encoding – and why the same platform can appear in applications that seem completely unrelated.
Explore the technologyIntellectual property and materials innovation.
Intelligent Material Solutions develops intellectual property related to energy-converting materials, engineered crystal systems and methods for reading their responses.
About IMSNovaVera Corporation
NovaVera is the commercialization arm for the technology, bringing Intelligent Material into authentication, diagnostics, therapeutics and other real-world markets.
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