Applications

The materials we’re after.

MEL is built for the class of materials where electrons and structure interact in complex, useful ways, which puts a wide range of high-value functional materials inside one search space. Superconductors are the lead wedge, the one whose ceiling is the cost of energy itself. Datacenter thermal, energy conversion, and battery materials follow.

$10T+

Superconductors · the systems

$100B+

Battery materials

$50B+

Datacenter thermal

$30B+

Energy conversion

Superconductors are sized as the systems they sit inside · the other three as their own materials markets

Act IThe lead wedge

Superconductors are the one application whose ceiling is the cost of energy itself. Everything starts here.

Superconductors and quantum materials

Where it matters · Quantum computing, power transmission, sensing, MRI and accelerator magnets

Market

$10T+ / yr

The systems superconductors sit inside: energy, compute, transport, medical. Near-term HTS component market $25B+ by 2035, growing ~12% annually.

The MEL framework was built for the class of correlated systems where superconductivity, charge order, and magnetic order coexist and compete. We're using it to surface higher-Tc candidates and the unconventional superconductors that will sit at the core of next-generation quantum and energy systems.

What we’re building

Higher-Tc families

Materials operating above industrial cryogenics. The gating constraint for power grid and fusion magnet deployment at scale.

Pressure-stable candidates

Bulk superconductors that don't need diamond-anvil pressures, what current record-holders quietly demand.

Field-resilient phases

Materials with built-in resilience against the magnetic-field collapse that limits today's high-temperature magnets.

Buyers and partners

Quantum-computing hardware · MRI and medical imaging · accelerator magnets · grid-scale power transmission

Act IIThe adjacent wedges

The same physics-grounded search reaches the materials next door: heat, energy conversion, and storage, each a large market in its own right.

Datacenter thermal management

Where it matters · AI training and inference clusters, edge compute, high-density infrastructure

Market

$20B → $50B+

Datacenter thermal-management materials · 2024 → 2030 · pulled by AI compute buildout

Modern compute is bottlenecked by the materials that move heat away from it. We target functional materials with the thermal transport properties to meet that load, from advanced heat-spreaders to phase-change media tuned for chip-scale dissipation.

What we’re building

AI-cluster heat spreaders

Anisotropic materials that move heat sideways as fast as copper moves it down. The constraint for 3D-stacked chips.

Phase-change media

Materials that absorb GPU thermal spikes without compromise, replacing today's bulk water-cooling at rack scale.

Buyers and partners

Hyperscale datacenter operators · GPU and accelerator vendors · ASIC design firms · advanced-packaging fabs

Energy conversion materials

Where it matters · Cryogenic cooling, recovered-heat power, refrigerant-free climate systems

Market

$30B+

Solid-state cooling and recovered-heat power · addressable market by 2035

Solid-state cooling and thermoelectric conversion both depend on materials with carefully tuned electronic and magnetic structure. Our framework targets that design space directly, surfacing candidates with the right entropy and band-structure response.

What we’re building

Refrigerant-free climate systems

Magnetocaloric materials that cool by changing magnetic state. No compressors, no refrigerants, no leaks.

Industrial heat recovery

Thermoelectric materials with industry-relevant efficiency at the temperatures factories actually produce.

Buyers and partners

HVAC manufacturers · industrial heat recovery · cryogenic equipment vendors · climate-tech integrators

Battery and ionic materials

Where it matters · Solid-state batteries, grid storage, high-density energy applications

Market

$100B+

Solid-state battery materials · addressable market by 2030, pulled by EV and grid storage

Electrolytes, cathodes, and solid-state ion conductors live or die by the same correlated physics: how electrons and ions arrange themselves under strain, doping, and disorder. We're applying MEL to find next-generation battery materials current chemistries can't reach.

What we’re building

Solid-state electrolytes

Ionic conductivity matching liquid electrolytes, without the flammability, dendrites, or degradation.

High-rate cathodes

Materials that cycle at 5C+ without structural failure. The gating constraint for EV fast-charging and grid storage.

Buyers and partners

EV battery cell manufacturers · grid-storage integrators · consumer electronics OEMs · stationary storage developers

Outside this list?

MEL extends further than what’s here.

Anywhere correlated electronic order matters (multiferroics, spintronic materials, frustrated magnets, topological phases), the framework applies. If you have a target domain in mind, write to research@supermatics.io.