The science behind Intelligent Material: papers co-authored by IMS, the field studies that use our reporters, the U.S. patents that protect it, and the work at RCA Laboratories and Penn it grew out of.
Rare-earth phosphors in flexible silicone films as reusable temperature sensors, read with a 980 nm laser from −50 to +200 °C. See the thermal data and Intelligent Material as sensors.
Why rare-earth plates pack the way they do: shape competes with how strongly the coating grips each edge.
One recipe grows upconverting crystals as spheres, rods, prisms or plates, all the same size, which then self-assemble.
Turning X-ray energy into visible light that can activate light-sensitive drugs deep in tissue.
808 and 980 nm infrared converted to visible light near 550 and 663 nm, matched to photosensitizer absorption.
Dr. Paul Corstjens and his colleagues at LUMC turned upconverting crystal reporters into quantitative lateral-flow tests and validated them with patients and animals on three continents. Every paper below is co-authored by him; ★ marks papers where he is first author. Links open PubMed. See how the work feeds our diagnostics programs.
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From PubMed, October 2026. Not every study used crystals made by IMS; many are field evaluations that use the upconverting-reporter test (UCP-LF) as a reference.
The uniform-nanocrystal synthesis recognized by the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Christopher Murray is an inventor on the IMS / Penn uniform-crystal patents.
Infrared-to-visible rare-earth oxysulfides, reported from the RCA building IMS works in today. See it measured on Our data.
Intelligent Material Solutions holds the intellectual property; NovaVera Corp. makes and sells Intelligent Material under an exclusive license. IMS holds 21 U.S. patents; key ones are listed here, and each link opens the patent in Google Patents.
We collaborate with universities, government labs and companies. Data sets, samples, SDS and TDS are available under NDA.
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