NovaVera · Intelligent Material® inside
Built for products where compromise is costly. NovaVera embeds covert, machine-readable crystals directly into ink, fiber, plastic and film, so verification holds up when labels, holograms and codes fall short.
The problem
Labels, holograms, printed codes and luminescent tracers all sit on the surface. A counterfeiter with the right equipment can reproduce them, and many already do.
Intelligent Material is inside. It is added during manufacturing to the ink, fiber, plastic or film itself, so there is nothing to peel off, nothing to copy, and nothing to buy outside the certified supply chain. Each crystal is grown to a precise recipe and answers light with its own optical signature.
Why it is harder to copy
Solutions
One material, three jobs.
Confirm a product is genuine with markers built into the product or its packaging.
Embedded signatures create a physical chain of custody that persists through processing, distribution and sale.
Quantify key ingredients, such as colorants and additives, or verify recycled content in the final product.
See it in real products: pharma, spirits, eyewear, metals, gold
How it works
Sub-micron crystals go into the materials you already use. NovaVera readers read their optical signature, instantly and without damaging anything, in the field or in the lab.
Security, packaging and inkjet inks, printed on your existing presses.
Spun into fibers and threads, from apparel to security paper.
Compounded into masterbatch for molded parts, caps and closures.
Coated or laminated into labels, films and windows.
Applied as coatings that travel with coils, castings and parts.
Visual features anyone can check: a consumer, a nurse, a store clerk.
An app excites the crystal, confirms it is there, then checks the unit’s code against its record.
A handheld reader measures the full optical signature: which crystal, how much, and whether it matches the lot.
One product can carry all three levels, so each person in the chain uses the check that fits their job.
How authentication works, in depth LightMap™: a fingerprint with no database
Industries
How to start
You work with NovaVera, the exclusive licensee of Intelligent Material, from the first meeting to the supply agreement. Every program follows the same five steps, and you decide after each one whether to go on.
The crystal works at parts-per-million loadings, inside an ink, plastic, fiber or adhesive you already use. Safety and technical data sheets are available on request under NDA.
Request samplesCompany
NovaVera Corp. makes and sells Intelligent Material® under exclusive license from Intelligent Material Solutions (IMS), on the historic RCA / Sarnoff campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Its liquid-state crystal synthesis produces uniform sub-micron crystals: one phase, one size, one shape, every batch.
We serve central banks, pharmaceutical manufacturers and brand owners, under an ISO 9001 certified quality system.
IMS and NovaVera invent together. IMS owns the patents and licenses them; NovaVera makes and sells.
Visit Intelligent Material Solutions ↗People
Three decades of nanocrystal science, one line of training, and a team that turns it into programs that ship.
Princeton University · Columbia Business School MBA · management consulting
John co-founded NovaVera to take Intelligent Material® out of the lab and into the products, documents and supply chains that need it. He leads the company’s strategy, partnerships and growth, and works directly with the brand owners, manufacturers and institutions who adopt it.
Richard Perry University Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
First author of the 1993 quantum-dot paper that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognized: the first reliable way to grow nanocrystals of one size. Three decades of foundational work on colloidal nanocrystals since.
Twenty years of Friday calls with Dr. Murray: an hour on the phone every week, from the first uniform crystals to the Intelligent Material® platform
Author of many papers on nanocrystals, upconversion and optical sensing. Directs crystal design, crystallography and spectroscopy, and the detection systems that read them.
PhD in inorganic chemistry and nanoscience, Duke University. Over 20 years in nanomaterials and crystallography, directing the materials research behind the platform.
Runs the quality system, processes and operations behind every client program and manufacturing run. Your first reply usually comes from her.
Works with clients across our priority industries to scope, pilot and launch deployment programs.
Insights
How to prove a product is real, why anti-counterfeiting has a counterfeiting problem, and what banknotes teach everyone else.
Tell us what you need to protect. We reply within two business days.