THERMAL MANAGEMENT MATERIALS

Get more performance from every particle.

We nano-coat metal, ceramic and synthetic diamond powders so your interface, composite or printed part runs cooler, lighter and longer.

CORE metal / ceramic / diamond SHELL 10–200 nm coating Q → heat out
One particle, functional surface lowhigh heat flux

+30% → 10×

Thermal conductivity gain, by substrate · 10× is our target

−90%

Up to 90% less conductive metal for equal performance

10–200 nm

Coating thickness range

g → t/day

One continuous process, grams to tonnes

01 / WHY NOW

Power is rising. Heat is the opportunity.

Compute, electrification and defence platforms push more heat through the same space. Better thermal materials turn that challenge into performance.

AI and electronics

Less energy lost as heat means more compute per watt.

Lightweighting

Every gram saved goes back into payload, range or endurance.

Critical materials

Thin functional shells make finite metals go further, so you need less of them.

02 / HOW IT WORKS

A metal shell on every particle.

Thin oxide films on powder are common. Dense metal shells, tens to hundreds of nanometres thick, on every particle are not. STORM delivers them, so a thin shell does the work of far more material.

  1. STEP 1 → Powder in Your metal, ceramic or synthetic diamond powder, as supplied.
  2. STEP 2 → STORM Every particle coated, continuously, in one dry step.
  3. STEP 3 → Coated powder out Same handling, new surface. A drop-in material.
  4. STEP 4 Your part Interface material, composite, coating or printed part.
Metal Powder at High Res
SEM images of metal powder
Left: SEM image of a synthetic diamond particle. Right: element map of the same particle showing a continuous metal nano-coating over its whole surface.
Synthetic diamond, SEM (left) · STORM metal coating, EDX map (right)
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03 / WHAT CHANGES

Cooler running. Lighter parts. More compute.

Lower temperatures

Higher-conductivity fillers pull heat away from hotspots.

Lighter parts

Light cores with conductive shells replace solid metal fillers.

More compute

Cooler chips throttle less, so data centres get more compute from the same power.

04 / SCALE

One process, from grams to tonnes.

Our process is physics, not chemistry. No reactions to re-engineer as we scale, so POC results carry through to production.

  1. LIGHTNING < 10 g / batch Screening and coating recipe development. IN USE
  2. THUNDER < 1 kg / batch Customer samples and POC quantities. IN USE
  3. STORM kg / hour Pilot supply and qualification lots. IN USE
  4. TORNADO tonnes / day Volume production for programmes. ROADMAP

COATING CHECK

Check a coating for your powder in two minutes.

Tell us your powder, coating and the property you want to improve. Get an indicative assessment, emailed to you, and a reply from our team.

FOUR QUESTIONS PER COMPOSITION

  1. 01What is the powder?Metal, ceramic, diamond or your own material
  2. 02What particle size?Choose a size band
  3. 03What coating?Up to five layers
  4. 04What should it improve?Thermal, mechanical, magnetic and more

Compare up to five compositions in one enquiry.

Start your coating check

EXAMPLE RESULT

Tantalum on titanium45–63 µm powderLOOKS WORKABLE
0.021–0.030 m²/gSpecific surface area
30–240 gWorkable sample mass
ThicknessWeight loading
10 nm0.35–0.49 wt%
25 nm0.88–1.22 wt%
50 nm1.74–2.42 wt%
100 nm3.42–4.73 wt%
250 nm8.17–11.1 wt%
Indicative figures. Unusual combinations go to our team for review.

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