Forge Nano

A startup that innovated a breakthrough technology to enable precision nano coatings at scale for manufacturing of products including Li-Ion battery materials.

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Follow Forge Nano for updates on Atomic Armor for the war industrial base.

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Every next-generation war platform is a materials engineering problem before it is anything else.

Unmanned systems operating at extended range.
Soldier-worn electronics surviving field conditions.
Satellite components enduring tens of thousands of thermal cycles.

Each demands surface engineering conventional materials cannot deliver.

The constraint is not the platform design. It is the surface.

Atomic Armor addresses it at the atomic scale.

Conformal inorganic coatings. One molecular layer at a time. Engineered for the exact conditions the platform will face.

The war industrial base buys on performance, qualification, and supply chain reliability.

Not on cost.

Atomic Armor is positioned exactly there.

The qualification work being done today builds program revenue for the next decade.
#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #WarTech #ALD #NationalSecurity #DefenseInnovation #UnmannedSystems #SoldierSystems

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We recently joined Nasdaq at MarketSite to discuss how advanced materials manufacturing is enabling the next generation of critical technologies.

At Forge Nano, we're focused on scaling Atomic Armor™ - our proprietary atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology - to improve performance, reliability, and manufacturability across batteries, semiconductors, and other high-value applications.

As demand grows for more efficient energy storage and advanced electronics, innovation isn't just about discovering new materials - it's about manufacturing them at scale. That's where Forge Nano is making an impact: bridging the gap between breakthrough science and commercial production.

Thank you to Nasdaq for the opportunity to share our vision for strengthening domestic manufacturing, accelerating technology adoption, and building the foundation for tomorrow's industries.

Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/zAjeJzJPNr

For more information related Forge Nano's BCA announcement, please see our press release: https://t.co/liXunPv6GS

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Follow Forge Nano for updates on our public company journey and the Atomic Armor platform.

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Forge Nano is going public.

Here is what that means and why it matters.

The work does not change.

We will keep doing what we have been doing: deploying Atomic Layer Deposition at industrial scale across the five markets that depend on precision surface engineering.

Semiconductors. Batteries. War and defense. Aerospace. Industrial powders.

What changes is our ability to accelerate.

Public company capital lets us scale the Atomic Armor platform at a pace that matches the urgency of the markets we serve.

CHIPS Act fabs are being built now. Battery gigafactories are qualifying materials now. Defense programs are setting specifications now that will define procurement for 30 years.

We have spent over a decade building something real.

Validated technology. Paying customers. A manufacturing platform that serves markets where performance is non-negotiable.

Now we build it at a different scale.

Atomic Armor. Forge Nano.
For more information related to the announcement, please see our press release: https://t.co/vCMrKimYmm

#ForgeNano #AtomicArmor #ALD #GoingPublic #CriticalInfrastructure #DeepTech #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialTech

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We’re excited to announce that Forge Nano is collaborating with @Group14Tech
to advance high-performance lithium-ion battery cells powered by a predominantly U.S.-based material supply chain.

By combining Forge Nano’s Atomic Armor™ surface engineering technology with Group14’s advanced silicon battery materials, we’re helping accelerate the next generation of batteries with higher energy density, longer cycle life and improved performance for demanding applications.

This collaboration represents another step toward building a stronger and more resilient domestic battery ecosystem. Together, we’re supporting the growth of advanced manufacturing in the United States while helping reduce reliance on overseas material supply chains.

We believe partnerships like this are critical to scaling next-generation energy storage for defense, aerospace, mobility, and other high-performance applications.

We’re proud to work alongside innovators who share our vision for strengthening U.S. battery leadership and accelerating commercialization of advanced battery technologies.

Read the full release here: https://t.co/XliGBfqJXR

#ForgeNano #BatteryTechnology #EnergyStorage #AdvancedManufacturing #MadeInUSA #SupplyChain #LithiumIon #SiliconAnodes #DefenseTech #Aerospace

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America’s ability to lead in AI, defense and energy storage depends on one thing: rebuilding critical manufacturing capabilities at home.

In this interview with https://t.co/6rgCV0400L , Forge Nano CEO Paul Lichty discusses why securing domestic semiconductor and battery supply chains is no longer optional... it’s strategic infrastructure for the future of the U.S. economy.

From advanced semiconductors powering AI to NDAA-compliant battery manufacturing, the next decade will be defined by who can scale advanced manufacturing technologies fastest and most efficiently.

Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/VXZhpb5AZ9

For more information related Forge Nano's BCA announcement, please see our press release:https://t.co/dWCHWDJv58

#Semiconductors #BatteryTechnology #AdvancedManufacturing #SupplyChain #EnergyStorage #AI #DeepTech #MadeInUSA #Nanotechnology #ForgeNano

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Big milestone for the Forge Nano semiconductor team.

We’ve officially delivered our TEPHRA™ semiconductor wafer fabrication platform to a leading Fortune Global 500 communications infrastructure company to support next-generation commercial photonics applications.

Photonics is becoming a foundational technology for the AI era, enabling faster data transfer, higher bandwidth and lower power consumption across AI data centers, optical networking and high-performance computing infrastructure.

This deployment is another strong validation of Forge Nano’s Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology and our growing role in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

Excited to see our team continue expanding Forge Nano’s footprint across photonics, advanced packaging, memory and next-generation semiconductor applications.

Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/J1fnHn83es

#Photonics #Semiconductors #AI #ALD #AdvancedManufacturing #DataCenters #OpticalNetworking #SemiconductorEquipment #ForgeNano

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Follow Forge Nano for updates on the Atomic Armor battery platform and gigafactory build.

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There is a difference between enabling the battery supply chain and owning it.

Forge Nano does both.

Atomic Armor platform deposits ultra-thin conformal barrier layers on nearly every battery material: cathode powders, anode materials, separator surfaces, solid electrolytes, and conductive additives.

That is the enabling layer.

But Forge Nano also:

Produces full solution cells with Atomic Armor integrated from the material level up.
Is building a gigafactory.
Has built a dominant US supply chain.

The defense and aerospace energy market buys on performance, not cost.

Silent vehicles operating without acoustic signature.
Unmanned platforms sustaining extended range missions.
Soldier-worn power systems enduring 72-hour field deployments.
Satellite batteries cycling through tens of thousands of thermal events.

Every one demands a battery supply chain that starts at the atomic level and ends with a validated, qualified cell.

Better batteries begin at the surface. The surface is where Forge Nano starts.

The full solution cell is where it ends.

#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #BatteryManufacturing #Gigafactory #ALD #DefenseEnergy #USManufacturing
#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #BatteryManufacturing #Gigafactory #ALD #DefenseEnergy #USManufacturing #NationalSecurity

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Excited to share that Forge Nano has achieved ISO 9001 certification – a major milestone as demand accelerates for secure, U.S.-made battery supply chains.

This certification reinforces Forge Nano’s commitment to quality, reliability and scalable manufacturing as the company continues advancing next-generation battery and semiconductor technologies in the U.S.

As domestic energy storage and defense applications grow, strong manufacturing standards will be critical to building resilient supply chains and accelerating innovation. Congrats to the entire Forge Nano team on the achievement.

Read the full press release here: https://t.co/mU5P1S2tY8

#BatteryTech #Manufacturing #SupplyChain #EnergyStorage #CleanTech #MadeInUSA #ISO9001 #Batteries

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Forge Nano is going public.

Here is what that means and why it matters.

The work does not change.

We will keep doing what we have been doing: deploying Atomic Layer Deposition at industrial scale across the five markets that depend on precision surface engineering.

Semiconductors. Batteries. War and defense. Aerospace. Industrial powders.

What changes is our ability to accelerate.

Public company capital lets us scale the Atomic Armor platform at a pace that matches the urgency of the markets we serve.

CHIPS Act fabs are being built now. Battery gigafactories are qualifying materials now. Defense programs are setting specifications now that will define procurement for 30 years.

We have spent over a decade building something real.

Validated technology. Paying customers. A manufacturing platform that serves markets where performance is non-negotiable.

Now we build it at a different scale.

Atomic Armor. Forge Nano.

For more information related to the announcement, please see our press release:https://t.co/h2RAeRTkvZ

#ForgeNano #AtomicArmor #ALD #GoingPublic #DeepTech #CriticalInfrastructure
#ForgeNano #AtomicArmor #ALD #GoingPublic #CriticalInfrastructure #DeepTech #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialTech

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Big momentum in the semiconductor space 🚀

Forge Nano is bringing its latest Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) innovations to Southeast Asia – hosting a technical seminar in Kuala Lumpur to engage leading fabs, partners, and industry innovators.

Why it matters:

🔹 Breakthrough capability: Forge Nano recently demonstrated high-speed ALD coatings on structures with 1000:1 aspect ratios—a major leap for next-gen chip architectures.
🔹 Enabling next-gen tech: These ultra-conformal coatings unlock new possibilities across AI chips, photonics, RF, MEMS, and advanced packaging.
🔹 Solving a key bottleneck: As demand for AI and high-performance computing surges, manufacturing capability—not design—is increasingly the limiting factor.

Malaysia is a strategic choice. The country already accounts for ~13% of global semiconductor assembly, testing, and packaging—and is rapidly moving up the value chain.

Forge Nano’s approach goes beyond tools with focus on localized partnerships, service infrastructure, and long-term ecosystem development to support customers in-region.

As semiconductor complexity accelerates, innovations like high-aspect-ratio ALD could play a defining role in enabling the next wave of AI-driven hardware.

Read the full release here: https://t.co/pztICCYWXA

#Semiconductors #AI #AdvancedManufacturing #Innovation #Nanotechnology #ChipDesign #ALD

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ICYMI: Forge Nano Expects to List on NASDAQ through Merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co. This announcement marks a major step forward in scaling U.S.-based manufacturing for AI-era semiconductors and defense battery technology. From enabling next-gen chips to strengthening energy solutions for critical applications, this milestone positions Forge Nano at the center of some of today’s most important innovation trends. 📣 There’s still time to catch up. Join today’s investor presentation to hear directly from leadership on what this means for the future and what’s ahead. Access the call via the link here: https://t.co/wqE4jdVKLm

#AI #Semiconductors #AdvancedManufacturing #EnergyStorage #IPO #Investing #DefenseTech

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Every market Atomic Armor serves has distinct commercial characteristics.

None departs more sharply from commodity industrial assumptions than war and defense.

Four structural differences every analyst should understand:

1/ PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION, NOT COST SPECIFICATION

War procurement is driven by the requirement, not the price. A coating meeting a satellite thermal cycling specification commands pricing commodity markets cannot approach. The customer is buying survivability, not surface area.

2/ QUALIFICATION MOATS ARE STRUCTURALLY PERMANENT

Program qualification creates switching costs that are almost impossible to displace. Requalification requires years of testing and millions in program budget. The qualification itself is a durable competitive asset.

3/ PROGRAM REVENUE HAS STRUCTURAL VISIBILITY

War programs run on multi-year budgets with legislative authorization. Revenue tied to qualified war material supply has predictability and duration that commercial markets cannot match.

4/ THE TAM GROWS WITH PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT, NOT CONSUMER CYCLES

Every new unmanned system, satellite constellation, and soldier electronics platform is a new materials requirement. This market is created by program decisions and national security strategy.

Atomic Armor is positioned across the full spectrum of war materials requirements.

The qualification work underway today is building the revenue visibility of tomorrow.

#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #WarTech #InvestorRelations #ALD #DefenseInvesting #CapitalMarkets #IndustrialTech

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The battery performance conversation is full of claims.

Here is what the data actually shows when you coat cathode materials with Atomic Layer Deposition:

CYCLE LIFE

ALD-coated NMC cathodes show meaningful capacity retention improvement across hundreds of charge-discharge cycles.

The coating suppresses parasitic surface reactions that consume active lithium over time. That degradation mechanism is where most cycle life loss originates. Addressing it at the surface fundamentally changes the long-term performance curve.

RATE CAPABILITY
Under high‑rate operation, ALD coatings mitigate cathode surface degradation by limiting transition‑metal dissolution and the associated catalytic electrolyte breakdown. This suppression of TM‑driven gassing reduces interfacial impedance growth, enabling improved capacity retention at high C‑rates, especially in Ni-rich layered oxides and high voltage materials.

THERMAL STABILITY
ALD-coated cathodes show improved stability under abuse conditions. The exothermic reactions that initiate thermal runaway are surface-mediated. A conformal atomic-scale barrier delays onset and reduces severity.

TEMPERATURE RANGE
ALD coatings improve low-temperature discharge performance because the coating reduces impedance growth at the cathode surface, the primary mechanism behind cold-temperature capacity loss.

Not incremental improvements.

The difference between a battery that meets the specification and one that does not.

The surface is where battery performance is won or lost. Atomic Armor engineers the surface.

#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #BatteryData #ALD #CathodeCoating #EnergyStorage #BatteryPerformance #EVBattery

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For decades, Atomic Layer Deposition was a technology for flat things.

Wafers. Panels. Films.

The semiconductor industry built ALD around planar substrates. Equipment, chemistry, and process knowledge all evolved around that constraint.

Forge Nano built something different.

Industrial-scale ALD for powders and particulate materials.

The ability to coat three-dimensional particles, granules, and complex geometries with the same angstrom-level precision as planar ALD.

Conformally. Uniformly. At production throughput.

The surfaces that determine performance in battery materials, industrial catalysts, energetic materials, pharmaceutical powders, and specialty chemicals are particle surfaces.

They are not flat.

No conventional coating technology achieves angstrom-level uniformity on these surfaces at industrial scale.

Atomic Armor powder processing does.

Rotary drum and fluidized bed ALD systems. Kilograms to metric tons per hour.

Coating quality at production throughput equivalent to research-scale results.

Maintaining atomic precision at industrial volume is the hard engineering problem we solved.

The result: a manufacturing capability that did not exist a decade ago and cannot be replicated quickly.

Atomic precision at industrial scale. That is the paradigm shift.

#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #PowderCoating #ALD #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialTech #ManufacturingParadigm #DeepTech

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A satellite in low Earth orbit experiences a full thermal cycle every 90 minutes.

Deep cold in shadow. Intense heat in direct sunlight. Back again. Continuously.

Across a 15-year mission lifetime: tens of thousands of cycles.

Space is also a radiation environment. High-energy particle bombardment generates reactive species that attack organic coatings and accelerate electrochemical degradation.

The combination creates failure pathways that do not exist in any terrestrial application.

Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform addresses the space environment at the atomic level.

ALD coatings on satellite battery cathode materials provide a chemically inert barrier that resists radiation-generated degradation while maintaining ionic conductivity.

No pinholes. No thickness variation. No delamination pathways.

Those are the failure modes thermal cycling exploits in conventional coating systems.

Atomic Armor eliminates them.

Structural and electronic surfaces protected by Atomic Armor maintain integrity across orbital thermal and radiation exposure without the mass penalty thicker protection imposes.

Space is the ultimate test of surface engineering.

Atomic Armor is built to pass it.

#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #SpaceSystems #SatelliteTech #ALD #WarTech #NationalSecurity #SpaceForce

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Three pieces of landmark legislation. One platform at the intersection of all three.

THE CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT

$50B+ toward domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Every advanced fab funded under CHIPS requires ALD for critical process steps.

Every fab that breaks ground is a compounding demand signal for Atomic Armor.

THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT

$370B+ toward clean energy manufacturing.

Domestic content requirements create structural demand for US-based cathode material processing.

ALD-coated battery materials from domestic suppliers are directly favored by IRA credit structures.

THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT

Funds the war platform programs that generate materials requirements no commercial market produces.

Unmanned systems. Soldier electronics. Satellite constellations. All ALD-intensive.

Forge Nano's Atomic Armor platform sits at the intersection of all three.

These are not correlated policy risks. They address different end markets, operate on different timelines, draw from different appropriations.

Genuine demand diversification underwritten by government policy.

Three tailwinds. One Atomic Armor platform.

#AtomicArmor #ForgeNano #CHIPSAct #IRA #NDAA #IndustrialPolicy #ALD #CapitalMarkets