The most monumental breakthroughs in tech all start the same way: Someone finds a new material.

The transistor. The jet turbine. The heat shield that gets a spacecraft safely back to Earth. You don't have to know about the materials behind those inventions to know they reshaped the texture of human life and introduced an era of abundance beyond our ancestors’ wildest dreams.

Materials enable every step forward for humanity, but the way they’re being discovered isn’t keeping pace with what’s possible.

In every industry, thousands of the world’s most impressive scientists and engineers have been running into the same wall for decades: The material they need doesn't exist yet, and inventing one takes ten years and a hundred million dollars. We know, because we’ve been those scientists chipping away at labwork drudgery, and we’ve been those engineers forced to work around what exists. Inventing anything new simply takes too long to keep up with our vision of human prosperity.

The most monumental breakthroughs in tech all start the same way: Someone finds a new material.

The transistor. The jet turbine. The heat shield that gets a spacecraft safely back to Earth. You don't have to know about the materials behind those inventions to know they reshaped the texture of human life and introduced an era of abundance beyond our ancestors’ wildest dreams.

Materials enable every step forward for humanity, but the way they’re being discovered isn’t keeping pace with what’s possible.

In every industry, thousands of the world’s most impressive scientists and engineers have been running into the same wall for decades: The material they need doesn't exist yet, and inventing one takes ten years and a hundred million dollars. We know, because we’ve been those scientists chipping away at labwork drudgery, and we’ve been those engineers forced to work around what exists. Inventing anything new simply takes too long to keep up with our vision of human prosperity.

The most monumental breakthroughs in tech all start the same way: Someone finds a new material.

The transistor. The jet turbine. The heat shield that gets a spacecraft safely back to Earth. You don't have to know about the materials behind those inventions to know they reshaped the texture of human life and introduced an era of abundance beyond our ancestors’ wildest dreams.

Materials enable every step forward for humanity, but the way they’re being discovered isn’t keeping pace with what’s possible.

In every industry, thousands of the world’s most impressive scientists and engineers have been running into the same wall for decades: The material they need doesn't exist yet, and inventing one takes ten years and a hundred million dollars. We know, because we’ve been those scientists chipping away at labwork drudgery, and we’ve been those engineers forced to work around what exists. Inventing anything new simply takes too long to keep up with our vision of human prosperity.