The materials that built the modern world can't build what's next.
Galvorn at a glance
Galvorn is an advanced carbon material with a multi-property advantage
Meet Galvorn®, an advanced carbon material that carries current like copper, weighs a fraction as much, and keeps flexing long after metal has fatigued. Engineers have always had to trade one of those for another. Galvorn gives you all three at once, measured against the metals you design with today, produced in Houston, Texas and shipped globally.
Meet Galvorn
A conductor made of carbon instead of metal
Galvorn® is an electrical conductor made of carbon instead of metal. It carries current the way a wire does, but a Galvorn fiber weighs less than a fifth as much as copper for the same volume. It’s also flexible like a textile, and because it is carbon, it does not rust or pit.
It comes as fiber tow, twisted yarn, braided yarn, fabric, and film, so you can wind it, braid it, weave it, or wrap it with the equipment you already run. Engineers have wanted a material like this for as long as there have been wires: the conductivity of a metal with the weight and feel of a textile.
Demo video
Watch Galvorn put to the test
A short demo that shows what the numbers below mean in practice.
The next industrial revolution
A new foundation for the next industrial revolution
Copper, aluminum, and steel built the electrical age, and they are reaching their physical limits just as AI and electrification ask for more wire, more power, and more heat moved out of tighter spaces. Each of those metals forces a trade: conductivity for weight, strength for flexibility. Closing that gap takes a new foundational material: Galvorn®.
Produced in Houston, shipped worldwide
DexMat produces Galvorn in Houston, Texas, in an ISO 9001 certified facility, and ships it worldwide today. Since founding, we have cut production costs 99.6% and increased production capacity 3,000x, and we are still scaling.
99.6%
lower production cost since founding
3,000x
production capacity since founding
Where performance, economics, and sustainability coexist
High-performance materials no longer have to come with an environmental trade-off. Metals have to be mined, with the land and water damage that leaves behind, then refined and smelted at high energy cost. Making Galvorn takes less energy than mining and processing metals and requires no mining. Our production roadmap is built on natural gas, which America has in abundance, so the foundation of what's next can be made at home, sustainably and in quantity. The production of Galvorn at scale also has a clean energy byproduct: hydrogen. And Galvorn can be recycled without losing properties, as Rice University research has shown.
This is a material revolution and every engineer who designs Galvorn into their products and systems is part of it.
Applications
Where Galvorn is already at work
As a platform material, Galvorn suits many applications. These five are where it is at work today, each with its own page on what Galvorn does there and what to specify.
Conductive yarn that can be knitted, woven, or embroidered on standard textile equipment.
Industries
Built for the industries where weight, space, and movement decide the design
Lighter harnesses and shielding for aircraft, launch vehicles, and satellites, where every kilogram is paid for at launch.
Lighter conductors and shielding for soldier-worn systems, vehicles, and unmanned platforms.
Lighter, more flexible wiring for electric and autonomous vehicles, where harness weight and packaging limit range and design.
A conductive core for overhead conductors, in development with Prysmian Group.
Credibility
Backed by federal research programs, chosen by customers building what's next
Galvorn's development has been funded by the U.S. Air Force, NASA, the National Science Foundation, ARPA-E, and the U.S. Department of Energy, and DexMat was selected as a World Economic Forum UpLink Challenge winner in 2026. Customers including Tokai Rika and NeuroBionics build their products with Galvorn today. In 2025, DexMat produced and sold 2.5x more Galvorn than the year before.
News and resources
Latest from DexMat
Test results, announcements, and guides for you as you evaluate Galvorn.
Build what's next with us
The next industrial revolution gets built one design at a time, and it starts with a spool on your bench. Order sample quantities of any Galvorn form from the store, or talk with our engineers about where it fits your design.