DEMATERIALIZATION

Dematerialization: reducing the amount of materials required to make things or perform a function. It is, in effect, doing more with less. Dematerialization is using less material and less energy to create products that deliver much more at a much smaller price tag.  Dematerialization can also have profoundly beneficial environmental impacts, dropping all types of pollution, reducing impact on the environment, making smaller demands on energy and materials.

Covalent technology – by moving to atomic precision and 2 dimensional scale – takes dematerialization to the ultimate limit. At one-atomic-layer-thick, Covalent technology represents the ultimate in dematerialization.  This is the equivalent of the journey from the large vacuum tube computers of the 1950s coming down to the size of today’s chip-driven devices – but happening instantly.

And by being able to build with complete precision at the molecular scale, more functionality can be designed in atom by atom.  In recent years, we have seen dematerialization play out with smart phones combining a phone, a still camera, a video camera, a watch, an alarm clock, a speaker phone, and much more into one small package. This is how an entire desalination or purification plant can be replaced by a tiny cartridge. As Covalent technology is applied to other applications, we will see things become smaller, less energy intensive, less costly, more environmentally friendly, and more helpful to the people who use them.