Our vision
We produce materials not by combusting carbon, but capturing it into a high-value advanced carbon material. Clean hydrogen is a byproduct.
With methane pyrolysis we can permanently embody carbon into Galvorn and more efficiently produce clean hydrogen. "Turquoise" hydrogen is produced through methane pyrolysis, splitting the methane (CH4) into hydrogen (H2) and solid carbon (C). This method of hydrogen production is four times more efficient than green hydrogen production.
Methane pyrolysis can be used to produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the feedstock required to produce high-performance Galvorn. Galvorn is much more energy efficient to produce than steel, aluminum, and copper. With its impressive properties, Galvorn can displace these metals, as well as other energy-intensive materials, like carbon fiber and Kevlar.
With Galvorn we can enable energy and materials dominance, as well as do right by our planet.
Gray hydrogen is cheap, but misses an opportunity to unlock a high-value market
“Gray” hydrogen makes up over 75% of today’s hydrogen market. It is produced through a process called steam reforming. Methane gas is reacted with high-temperature steam in the presence of a nickel catalyst. This reaction produces hydrogen gas and emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Our mission
Make Galvorn accessible and transform our material world.
DexMat produces Galvorn fibers with unmatched properties at unbeatable techno-economic scalability. Customers tell us, ‘Your material is amazing, you need to make more of it, and it needs to cost less.’ DexMat was founded on the premise that we can make high-performance Galvorn accessible to all.
Our specific process is proprietary, but wet spinning as a general manufacturing approach is well-established. Numerous polymeric and cellulosic wet-spun products are already produced on a large scale. We can leverage existing knowledge to scale up production efficiently while maintaining our competitive edge in material properties.
Beyond our patents, DexMat has accumulated extensive trade secrets. They further enhance our ability to make Galvorn efficiently, at scale, and with superior properties.
Founded on more than 20 years of R&D
1991
CNTs usher a new vision for high-performance materials
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were discovered in 1991 by Sumio Iijima (above) with great fanfare owing to their incredible properties at the nanoscale. Over the years, market hope turned to hype, which turned to disillusionment as the inherent difficulty of working with CNTs limited the number of applications in which they were successfully leveraged to make a tangible impact.
2001
Research into spinning CNTs into fibers to retain their electrical and mechanical properties begins
In 2001, Prof. Richard Smalley (1996 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry) began trying to use liquid processing to spin carbon nanotubes into fibers that retained the tubes’ electrical and mechanical properties over kilometer lengths. Prof. Matteo Pasquali, now DexMat Co-Founder and Chief Science Advisor, was then part of the project from the beginning and took over after Smalley’s passing in 2005.
2013
First demonstration of high conductivity and strength in CNT fibers
In 2013 Prof. Matteo Pasquali led a team, which then included Dmitri Tsentalovich, PhD, now DexMat Co-Founder and CTO, as well as Colin Young, PhD, now DexMat Senior Research Scientist. Together with the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force, and Israel's Technion Institute they unveiled new CNT fibers that looked and acted like textile threads and conducted electricity and heat like a metal wire.
2023
Following its 2023 Seed Investment DexMat demonstrates 20x scale up
DexMat was founded in 2019 and remained grant-funded until its Seed Investment in 2023. Process improvements, along with new IP licensed from Rice University, enabled DexMat to produce Galvorn faster, cheaper, and more sustainably.