Layer 01 · Material The Platform

An advanced micro/nano encapsulation platform.

Engineered thermal performance at the material level — nano phase-change materials, core-shell microcapsules, and contract encapsulation, delivered as a material your team can design around.

Smallest particle
300 nm encapsulated PCM
Material library
9 grades per phase point
Shell chemistry
Tunable release & load
Delivered as
Technical data package
Footage · chemistry-lab research environment
01The problem
02The platform
03What it delivers
04Where it goes
05Material review
00 / The principle

How a melting material
holds temperature steady.

A phase-change material stores heat by melting — not by getting hotter. The idea was proven in NASA spacesuits, where it shielded astronauts from the extreme heat and cold of orbit.

Heat most materials and they simply get warmer. A phase-change material is different: at its melting point it keeps soaking up heat while staying at the same temperature, storing the energy in the change of state.

And it’s reversible. As the surroundings cool, the material refreezes and gives that heat back — holding a target temperature from both sides.

Pick the melting point and you pick the temperature it protects: 2–8 °C for vaccines, room temperature for electronics, sub-zero for frozen goods.

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless on the first untethered spacewalk, 1984 — a spacesuit holding body temperature against the extremes of orbit
PCM heritage · NASA spacesuits rode out orbit’s −250 °F to +250 °F swings · Image: NASA
PHASE POINT Temperature stays at the phase point ↑ LATENT HEAT ABSORBED SENSIBLE · SOLID LATENT · MELTING SENSIBLE · LIQUID TEMPERATURE → HEAT ABSORBED →
Enthalpy curve · the flat plateau is the working range of a PCM
01 · Charge

Frozen and ready

Below the phase point the PCM is solid and fully charged. As its surroundings warm toward the set point, it stands ready to absorb.

02 · Buffer

Soaks up the spike

At the phase point it melts, taking in heat at constant temperature — flattening a thermal spike instead of letting it pass through.

03 · Release

Gives it back

When surroundings cool, the material refreezes and releases the stored heat — defending the set point from the other side, then resetting for the next cycle.

01 / The problem

Raw PCM rarely survives a real product.

Phase-change material stores a lot of heat in a small mass — but raw, it leaks on melt, separates over cycles, and conducts heat poorly. Encapsulation is the difference between a chemistry and a usable material.

SEM image of nano PCM microcapsules at roughly one micron scale
SEM · CORE-SHELL MICROCAPSULES AT ~1 µm
Encapsulated PCM in bulk powder form in a glass beaker
BULK FORM · ENCAPSULATED PCM POWDER
— 01

Containment

A robust shell keeps the melt sealed inside the particle — no leaking, no migration into the host medium.

— 02

Cycle stability

The shell holds the chemistry together across thousands of melt–freeze cycles — no separation, no capacity fade.

— 03

Integration

Tuned particle size and shell chemistry let the material enter a textile, foam, coating, or fluid cleanly.

Passive Edge micro/nano encapsulation platform — nano PCM and microcapsules feeding end applications across cold chain, data center, building, electronics, and agriculture
PLATFORM MAP · MATERIALS → ENCAPSULATION → END APPLICATIONS
02 / The platform

One encapsulation platform, many materials.

Not a single product — a set of shell chemistries and process controls that wrap many cores at sizes from microns down to a few hundred nanometers.

So we specify the material to your project instead of asking you to design around a catalog item — and hand back the technical data package to build with it.

— Control

Particle size, on purpose

From conventional microcapsules down to 300 nm encapsulated PCM — chosen to match how the material has to enter your host medium.

— Tunability

Shell chemistry to spec

Release profile, load fraction, and shell composition are tunable per project — for thermal, agro, and life-science use cases.

— Breadth

Conductivity tiers

PCM, SemiST, and UltraST tiers lift conductivity across three chemistries — nine grades available at every phase point.

03 / What the platform delivers

Four ways to engage
at the material level.

Start wherever your project sits — a specified PCM grade, an encapsulated additive, or a contract program where we encapsulate your own core. Each is delivered with a technical data package.

— 01 · Material platform

PCM Platform

PCM specified by phase point — nine grades each: three conductivity tiers across three chemistries.

  • PHASE POINTSpecified per project
  • GRADES9 per phase point
  • TIERSPCM · SemiST · UltraST
  • DELIVERSMaterial + data package
— 02 · Material option

Nano PCM Microcapsules

Core-shell encapsulation down to sub-micron sizes — integrates into textiles, foams, polymers, and coatings.

  • PARTICLE SIZEDown to 300 nm
  • STRUCTURECore-shell
  • CARRIERSTextile · foam · polymer · coating
  • DELIVERSMaterial + data package
— 03 · Integration option

MOFPoly Encapsulation

Custom encapsulation with tunable shell, release profile, and load — for thermal, agro, and life-science integration.

  • SHELLTunable chemistry
  • RELEASEProfile to spec
  • USEThermal · agro · life-science
  • DELIVERSCapability + data package
— 04 · Service

Contract Encapsulation

Bring your own core — we apply the platform's shell chemistries and hand back a characterized, integration-ready material.

  • INPUTPartner-supplied core
  • PROCESSPlatform shell + controls
  • SCOPEScoped, bounded program
  • DELIVERSCharacterized material
PCM microcapsules absorbing heat from a chip surface — encapsulation working in a real thermal load
— Encapsulation in action
Sealed microcapsules absorb the thermal peak, then release it as the load drops.
04 / Where the material goes

The material layer feeds
every system we build.

The same encapsulation platform that produces a microcapsule for a coating produces the UltraST cores inside our thermal-buffer modules. Material capability is the foundation — system delivery requires project-specific validation.

05 / Material data packages

Every material ships with a technical data package.

Phase point, latent heat capacity, conductivity, cycle stability, and encapsulation chemistry — the evidence your engineering team needs to design with confidence.

06 / Technical resources

Build your internal case.

Get in touch

Tell us what you need to encapsulate, and where it has to go.

Share your target phase point, host medium, and integration constraints. We'll respond with a candidate material or encapsulation approach and a relevant technical data package.