Women are at the forefront of new creations across the globe.

Christina Lomasney, a physicist, is using nanopartices to make nanolaminates, a completely new material.

Lomasney is the founder of Modumetal, a firm using a new type of eletrolytic deposit.

By carefully manipulating the electric field, this process builds up veneers of different metals over a surface and controls how the layers interact with each other.

“In effect, we grow material,” says Ms. Lomasney.  Lomasney expects to do this cheaply on an industrial scale for metals like steel, inc and aluminum.  Itts first products are pumps, valves and fasteners.  One of the most important applications of this technology is batteries.  Batteries for electric cars are still expensive and the search for a cheaper solution may lead to s. Lomasney.