James Kim, Ph.D.
Scientific Founder · MEL Theory
CTO, Hyunsung TNC
Press kit
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Taglines
One-liner
SuperMatics finds new superconductors with AI.
Two-liner
SuperMatics is a materials intelligence company finding new high-temperature superconductors with AI, built on eighteen years of physics theory and validated in academic labs.
Three-liner
SuperMatics is a materials intelligence company building the AI-native discovery loop for new high-temperature superconductors. The platform is anchored on the Modulated Electron Lattice (MEL) framework: eighteen years of condensed-matter physics theory, productized. Predictions are confirmed in collaborating research labs and scaled with industrial partners.
Short boilerplate · one paragraph
SuperMatics is a materials intelligence company finding new high-temperature superconductors and quantum materials with AI. The platform is built on the Modulated Electron Lattice (MEL) framework, eighteen years of condensed-matter physics theory productized, with the core cooperative CDW-superconductivity mechanism independently confirmed in 2026 by a Stanford / SLAC group in Physical Review Letters. Validated in collaboration with research groups at UIUC and UC Berkeley. Headquartered in Berkeley and Suwon.
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Long boilerplate · about the company
SuperMatics is a materials intelligence company building the AI-native discovery loop for new high-temperature superconductors and the quantum materials around them.
The platform is anchored on the Modulated Electron Lattice (MEL) framework: eighteen years of condensed-matter physics theory developed at Hyunsung TNC and productized for AI-scale candidate generation. MEL classifies the broken-symmetry states of correlated quantum systems (charge order, spin order, pair-density waves, orbital order) in a representation a generative model can actually search.
The microscopic mechanism MEL was built around, cooperative phase coherence of charge order and superconductivity, was independently confirmed in 2026 by a Stanford and SLAC group in Physical Review Letters (Lee et al., DOI 10.1103/g41t-8456), via resonant soft x-ray scattering on a cuprate. Predictions are further confirmed in active research collaborations at UIUC and UC Berkeley, with discussions underway across additional correlated-electron groups. Industrial scale-up is handled with CAN Superconductors (Czech Republic). Patent strategy and IP prosecution is led by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
The company is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with research operations in Suwon, Korea.
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Pull quote · from the scientific founder
“Every high-Tc breakthrough since the 1980s has been an accident waiting on instinct. The Modulated Electron Lattice framework replaces the accident with a search, and the search with a loop a lab can confirm.”
Founding team
Davis Rens
Founder
SuperMatics · Berkeley
Charlie Moon
Corporate Strategy
SuperMatics · Hyunsung TNC
Full bios at /team
Fact sheet
- Company
- SuperMatics, Inc.
- Stage
- Seed
- Round
- $10M seed · SAFE · terms shared privately
- HQ
- Berkeley, California · Suwon, Korea
- Founded
- Built on 18 years of MEL theory at Hyunsung TNC
- Founding team
- 3 · Scientific Founder, Founder, Corporate Strategy
- Domain
- Materials intelligence · AI × physics
- Lead wedge
- Higher-Tc superconductors
- Adjacent wedges
- Datacenter thermal · energy conversion · battery materials
- IP base
- 10+ patents filed and pending · counsel by Wilson Sonsini
- Back-test accuracy
- Predicted Tc within ±1 K against the public superconductor literature
- Research collaborations
- Madhavan (UIUC) · QB3 / Berkeley Nanofabrication Center · further discussions underway
- Industrial partner
- CAN Superconductors (Czech Republic) for HTS scale-up
- Reference paper
- MEL criterion · arXiv:2512.03368 (2025)
- External validation
- Lee et al., Physical Review Letters · Stanford / SLAC · 2026 · DOI 10.1103/g41t-8456
Numbers current as of the latest deploy · verifiable against the live site
Brand assets
Logos and lockups, as SVG.
Color · teal #1A5CF2 · sage #05C8E8 · vellum #070B1C · ink #DCE8FF
Typography · Fraunces (display) · DM Sans (body) · JetBrains Mono (technical)
References
Paper · 2025
A Modulated Electron Lattice (MEL) criterion for metallic superconductivityarXiv:2512.03368
Parent · framework origin
Hyunsung TNC · MEL theory developed hereIndustrial partner
CAN Superconductors · HTS scale-upPatent counsel
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati · IP strategy
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