Anvil: the Materials Forge Inc.
Anvil: The Materials Forge Inc. (“Anvil TMF”) intends to be recognized as the industry leader in the design, development, and manufacturing of nanoscale materials for magnetic, electronic, and biomedical applications. Our signature material, Anvilite™, is a passivated magnetic core nanoscale particle that can be made to have tailored functional properties for enhanced performance in a wide range of applications including magnetic micro-inductors for wireless communication circuits, microwave devices and radar absorbing coatings, and for cancer remediation therapies. The advantage of the core-shell design is that the properties are far superior because the state of the materials can be obtained by manipulating its size and chemistry. Anvil TMF intends to attract business through selective marketing directed to the users who have a need for individually tailored versions of Anvilite™. Anvil TMF will be the only company with a patent on Anvilite™ and will be an industry leader in synthesis techniques that allow for core-shell processing. Through selective fictionalization, Anvil TMF will design and produce varieties of Anvilite™ for selected markets, such as the following:
Medical Applications. The R&D staff of Anvil TMF have already designed and produced an MRI contrast reagent version of Anvilite™ that works with existing MRI equipment to greatly enhance the resolution of cancer cells. Other potential applications include a dual-frequency variety of Anvilite™ that can generate heat within and allow destruction of identified cancerous cells (including specific types of tumors, such as breast or brain tumors), without damaging the surrounding, healthy cells.
Pharmaceutical Applications. These include a drug-delivery system that can concentrate the highly toxic chemotherapy agents in a well-defined area of the body through use of a magnetic field thus reducing the total body dose of the chemicals.
Defense Applications. Anvilite™ could serve as a radar and infrared absorbance material for stealth applications.
Electronic Applications. Because the permeability and permittivity of the core shell particle can be independently tailored one can obtain a material with an impedance of free space thus making it invisible to incident radiation. Such properties can be of great utility in the design of radomes for the Department of Defense.
Anvil TMF is currently in the finishing stages of R&D of an in order to provide tailored magnetic nanoparticles for your application. Currently Anvilite™ is available as a air stable powder, stable ferrofluid, and comes with a variety of coatings such as organic ligands, non-native iron oxides, gold, silver, or silica.
For many years companies have been using magnetic nanoscale materials for a multitude of applications, and the idea is that smaller the particles the more surface area. Magnetic particles range from 2 nm to 100nm. The problem is that the smaller particles are difficult to manufacture consistently. Dr. Carpenter has a patented process that addresses this problem. So we are able to manufacture particles consistently. Today, the industry market has grown exponentially, creating demand for the high quality and consistent sized particles that our process makes possible.
“Doctors in the future might be able to diagnose breast and ovarian cancer or Alzheimer's disease using magnetism and microscopic particles of iron oxide bound to the type of cells being traced.”
- Associated press
Anvil TMF is creating an operating infrastructure, with proprietary content and intellectual property. Anvil TMF is now transforming its product, as well as its fundamental business model, to take full advantage of the ever-growing need for magnetic nanoscale materials that are small enough to be utilized in targeted drug delivery systems, early disease detection diagnostic equipment, as well as the need for particles for communications technology. We have completed the development of magnetic nanoscale materials—and own the intellectual properties for the proprietary technology for creating particles that are smaller and more consistent purity then our closest competitor.
Anvil TMF has been established as an S Corporation located in Richmond Virginia area. Planned expansion will include a production facility and workers (both scientists and technicians) within the next 18 months. This expansion will be necessary for the demand for our product.
Both the pharmaceutical and communications markets are growing rapidly technology is often old by the time it is released. The market for magnetic nano-material products amounted to $6.6 billion in 2006–representing a 51% growth as compared with $4.3 billion in 2004. It is estimated that the growth could reach $12 billion by 2009.
According to the UPI’s Nano World, dated May 12, 2005, the global market for nanomagnetic devices and materials totaled roughly $4.3 billion in 2004, and could reach nearly $12 billion in 2009.
"What's amazing about nanomagnetics is that applications of the technology run the gamut from literally decades-old products, such as magnetic fluids used for industrial sealing applications, to futuristic high-tech uses that are likely years from commercialization, such as agents for killing tumor cells."
-Mindy Rittner, a scientific adviser in the Chicago office of intellectual property law firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione.
From our research, we’ve determined that companies purchase magnetic nanoscale materials primarily from large industrial labs. The greatest growth in the magnetic materials market is in the area of drug delivery and early disease detection, there is also the communications industry that relies heavily on the smaller is better approach. All of these markets are desperately looking for what we have. Currently, market distribution is shared by 3 participants Molecular Biosystems, Advanced Magnetics, Nycomed, Klaus Mosbach and Research Corporation Technologies, Inc., with Advanced Magnetics considered the market leader.
Dr. Everett E. Carpenter (President and Founder)
If you are interested in further discussion please contact me at 804-244-0134 or via email.