One on rooftops in India, one built for orbit. Both funded by us — partners contribute surfaces, specifications and access rather than capital. Everything we measure is shared with the partner, whether or not the numbers flatter us.
We coat a defined set of your panels and leave matched panels uncoated as controls, on the same roof. Output, temperature and soiling measured against each other over the pilot window.
Read the pilot and apply →A fully inorganic layer engineered for AM0, atomic oxygen, thermal cycling and outgassing limits. More power and longer retained power from an array whose area is already fixed.
Read the pilot and apply →Pick the pilot that fits, and tell us about your surfaces. Both are funded by us — partners contribute surfaces, specifications and access rather than capital.
Tell us about your site. We will come back with whether it suits the pilot window, what we would need from you, and what we would measure.
Tell us about your platform and its power constraints. We will come back on whether SPAL-ARIA fits your cell technology, orbit and schedule — and on what a coated-versus-control demonstration would look like.
These are research tracks, not products, and we are deliberate about saying so. They run on the same materials platform but solve a different problem, because most of these surfaces carry no photovoltaics at all.
Commercial buildings, industrial facilities and telecom towers are billions of square metres of thermally active surface. A façade with no solar on it has nothing for the optical layers to feed, so the value here is different: passive radiative cooling that reduces the heat load a building has to spend energy removing, and an anti-soiling surface that stays cleaner for longer.
Energy saved rather than energy generated. On a large façade in Indian conditions that is the larger number, and it needs no electrical integration at all.
Drones and electric vehicles are power-constrained in a way that resembles a satellite more than a rooftop: fixed surface area, mass that costs range, and thermal load that limits endurance. Where a surface already carries photovoltaics, the solar layers apply directly. Where it does not, the thermal layer is the useful one — surface temperature management that extends endurance without adding weight.
The materials are shared with the space programme rather than the solar one, because the constraints are closer to orbit than to a roof.
Infrastructure and mobility are pre-commercial research directions. No performance figures are claimed for either, and neither has an announced pilot, timeline or commercial partner.