Materials

Atomic Tessellator builds the computational infrastructure for advanced materials development. The platform allows organisations to explore thousands of material candidates through simulation, committing physical resources only to high-confidence options — compressing development cycles from months or years to days.

Headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the company targets defence, aerospace, and advanced engineering customers who face extreme material performance requirements. Use cases include new materials for EV batteries, carbon capture, fusion reactors, and replacing substances under regulatory scrutiny (PFAS, microplastics). The platform is built on ab-initio (first principles) methods, GPU-accelerated infrastructure, and AI-driven simulation, deployed via hosted cloud, dedicated cloud, or on-premise.

Conventional blast furnace production is structurally dependent on coal-derived coke — not just for heat but for the chemistry of reducing iron ore to metal.

The Boston Metal solution is Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE). The process uses clean electricity instead of coal to directly convert all grades of iron ore into pure liquid metal. An inert anode is immersed in an electrolyte containing iron ore; once the cell reaches 1600°C, electrons split the bonds in the iron oxide, releasing oxygen gas and high-purity liquid metal — with no CO₂ or other harmful byproducts.

The significance is that it sidesteps the limitations of the two other leading green steel approaches — electric arc furnaces (which require scrap steel feedstock) and green hydrogen DRI (which requires hydrogen infrastructure and multiple process steps). MOE creates a pathway for steel production without CO₂ emissions or any need for hydrogen infrastructure, carbon capture or process water.

MAKO's technology is a nanoimprint lithography process that embosses sharkskin-inspired riblet microstructures onto films and coatings at commercial speed. These micro-textures reduce turbulent drag across surfaces in contact with fluids — cutting fuel consumption on aircraft, ships, and wind turbine blades. The same patterning platform produces anti-fouling surfaces (preventing biofouling on ship hulls without toxic copper-based biocides), anti-bacterial coatings, and hydrophobic effects. In aviation alone, a 1–2% drag reduction translates to billions of dollars in fuel savings across a global fleet.

MAKO is an Australian company that has secured partnerships with major aerospace and maritime players, and is commercialising across multiple verticals simultaneously. The technology platform is particularly compelling because the same manufacturing process serves diverse high-value markets.