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The company’s main focus has historically been on the acquisition and development of highly profitable domestic oil fields, with interests in Texas, including the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford Shale. They are composite structures, consisting of conventional materials such as metals and plastics, that are engineered by scientists to exhibit new or enhanced properties.įor TRCH stock investors, the new focus adds an unfamiliar dimension to what had been an oil and gas exploration and production company based out of Plano, Texas, with a total of four full-time employees.
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Metamaterials are a subset of functional materials, according to the company. “We are very excited to showcase how metamaterials ‘go beyond’ conventional materials and chemistry, to offer new and highly sustainable solutions with semiconductor precision, at kilometer scale.”
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“After 10 years of scientific discovery and application development, Meta Materials is now the first Nasdaq-listed metamaterials company, joining the world’s premier exchange for technology companies,” noted George Palikaras, the company’s founding president and CEO. MMAT Stock Is First of Its Type on Nasdaq