Breakthrough Nanostructured Metal Alloys for Innovative Durability, Sustainability,
and Performance.
Our customer journey begins with identifying your product needs.
Transform your products with our nanostructured materials.
We engineer advanced materials solutions for sustainable product features.
We provide advanced materials to the top ten OEMs in the market.
Capabilities
Our customer’s journey begins with a product roadmap discussion to identify existing gaps across key performance features. These market leaders understand advanced materials are the building blocks needed to realize novel product features, alternatives for a lower environmental impact or a more sustainable supply chain.
Electrochemistry and Process Development
XTALIC begins developing chemistry and processes to create our advanced materials once the team has identified the key performance indicators, explored existing solutions and modeled new materials. The technical team will iterate at a beaker level until the material meets the customers technical needs.
Rapid Product Level Testing
After the initial material composition shows performance we quickly scale our electrochemistry and process to provide advanced materials for product level testing. Additional iterations take place to ensure the material performance transfers to the targeted product level feature.
On-site Global Production Support
Our chemistry and processes drop into existing manufacturing facilities while our technical team provides on-site support through the remainder of production. This ensures that the advanced materials supplied by XTALIC maintain the proper performance throughout your product life cycle.
Meet Our Team at CES 2024
Robert Legg is the Director of Product and Marketing at XTALIC Corporation. He joined XTALIC in 2015 to scale novel advanced materials solutions developed at MIT across EV, semiconductor, and smartphone applications. In 2019 he launched his first startup and issued international patents for customizable eyewear, camera systems and data protection algorithms. Robert began his career in 2006 designing camera and laser systems for military helicopters as an electrical engineer at FLIR Systems. After receiving his MBA from Rollins College, he transitioned into a BD and marketing role at Materion where he engaged with the fuzzy front end of photonics innovation. During the past eighteen years he has developed unique insight into how devices work and the technology breakthroughs, supply chains and manufacturing footprints required to commercialize our next generation of products.
Bob joined Xtalic in 2015 as vice president of research and development. He is responsible for seeking out and developing new product technologies and engaging with customers to solve challenging technical problems. He has over 20 years of experience in global research and development and product development roles. From 2007 to 2012, Bob led research and development at Tyco Electronics and from 2012 to 2014, he was the chief technology officer at TE Circuit Protection Business. Bob has a history of implementing new materials and process technologies in broad industries including consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and communications. He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Temple University and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering and Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Applications
Our capabilities ensure the best advanced material technologies get deployed on your latest products.
Technology
Metal is commonly used for its structural, electrical, or aesthetic properties. There are many methods to manufacture and enhance the properties of metal. Reducing grain sizes is a well known method used to increase the performance of metal.
By engineering grain sizes you can tailor the functional, electrical, mechanical and magnetic properties of metal.
Traditional manufacturing methods create unstable nanostructured metal alloys that lose their key properties over time and temperature. However, technology breakthroughs at MIT identified methods to engineer alloys that create stable nanostructured metals enabling their use across multiple real world applications.
Xtalic originally used algorithms that identify stable binary nanostructured metal alloys to move quickly from discussing customer needs to identifying potential solutions.
Today we are expanding our computational material design platform to include ternary and higher order alloys, better identify broader performance impacts and gain more granularity in controlling these properties with MIT and industry partners.
Xtalic controls the alloy by engineering the way atoms work with each other to form a specific nanostructure using proprietary pulse reverse electrodeposition wave forms and custom chemistry. Alloying elements are chosen through our computational material design platform to ensure a thermodynamically stable nanocrystalline structure. Dynamic Nanostructure Control® enables us to control the concentration of these alloying metals, thus the grain size and properties of the metal, ensuring outstanding product performance.
Nanocrystalline Metal Alloys
XTRONIC® is the first commercialized stable nanostructured metal alloy. It has saved 60% of all your high speed internet connections $178m in gold, 78mKg of CO2 since Amphenol began using it for switch and router connectors in 2010 and protects more than 2 billion smartphone charging connectors in your pockets today.
LUNA® is one of the world’s hardest high temperature silvers in the world. It can operate above 210 C. The hardness and electrical properties are similar to hard gold but at 2% of the mining impact of gold. Today it is used to create safer wearables and enable the next generation of reliable electric vehicles.
XTALIUM® is a suite of nanostructured aluminum alloys electroplated from ionic liquids. It has enabled one of the lightest materials in the world, has the strength of steel and can be anodized for a full palette of colors.
XTALIC is actively exploring new nanostructured copper, platinum, palladium, and iron alloys. Talk to our technical experts to discuss a solution to your applications.
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