Nanovate™ Technology

Through decreasing grain size and increasing performance; Integran’s Nanovate™ technology delivers unparalleled material properties and is cost effective.

Decreasing the Grain Size of Materials…
Typical metals and ceramics have crystalline structures with average grain sizes of several microns. Integran’s patented Nanovating process, creates materials with 1000 times smaller grain sizes.

Conventional Material	Nanovated Material	TEM Magnified View

The nanovated material has an average grain size of 20 nm. This is about 1000x smaller than the conventional material, at about 20 microns

…Significantly Improves Material Performance

Properties of metals are governed by the Hall-Petch relationship – as grain size decreases, strength increases. Nanocrystalline materials, such as Nanovate™ are characterized with significant increases in:

Yield Strength Ultimate Tensile Strength Hardness

...Without Sacrificing Ductility
"A value of 5% elongation; often used by structural designers, is used to separate ductile from brittle behavior. To date, (Integran's) nanomaterial may be the only example of nanocrystalline material produced by a one-step process exhibiting ductility behaviour"

C.C. Koch in "Ductility in Nanostructured & Ultrafine Grained Materials: Recent Evidence for Optimism"
J. Metastable & Nanocrystalline Materials, Vol.18 (2003)pp.9-20.

Other characteristics of Nanovated materials include:

Wear Resistance & Resilience Thermal Shock and Fatigue Resistance High Magnetic Saturation and Coercivity (@60Hz) Enhanced Anti-Microbial Activity

The Nanovate™ process offers cost effective:

Coating of substrates (carbon fiber, polymers or metals) Net shape manufacturing (foils, stand alone parts)

Some examples of product forms:



Click here for a chart comparing methods for producing Nanovate™ to those of other nanostructured materials.