INNOVATION
AT THE INTERSECTION OF
ARTS, SCIENCES, & ENGINEERING.

VALUE CHAIN

We noted a foundational weakness in incumbent structural and functional materials. They rarely resemble living matter. So, we decided to work with materials that are either constituents of living matter or are bio-mimetic. Our primary materials are water, and natural or biomimetic molecules and nanomaterials. While water forms the base material for our designs, other materials are surface active - they either assemble at water-gas interface or they assemble as micelles or colloids in the liquid phase.

We work with soap films and composite droplets.

Both are simple and  profound in their character.

We use a soap film as a stretched semipermeable nano-composite membrane, made of a proton conducting aqueous phase sandwiched by self-assembled monolayer of surfactant molecules. Droplets that we use are generally micron and submicron size composites incorporating both structure and function within a single form.

In contrast to imposing structure on matter, our primary architectural principle is self-assembly. This approach provides adaptibility to the structure and efficiency to the function. We work with soap bubbles, soap foams, and aerosol droplets as structures that can host functional materials and gases.

Our engineering designs prioritise gravitational potential and harnessing natural potential gradients for process dynamics.

All devices and processes are subjected to LCA (life cycle assessment) and are optimised for minimizing losses and environmental footprint.