Company

Stardust Materials, LLC, is an R&D company specializing in the development of optically active ceramics for applications in the area of document security and brand protection.
 

History

The Company was established in 1998 in Portland , OR, by Drs. Edward and Vitaly Talyansky, father and son, both holding Doctorate degrees in Physics – Materials Science. The original taggant technology offered by Stardust was the culmination of the extensive academic reasearch by Dr. Edward Talyansky while working in the 80's in the USSR under Soviet military contracts.

The taggant technology consisted of a range of up-converting ceramics that transformed invisible IR light into visible colors. While these materials had been studied academically since the 60's, they had not attained commercially viable conversion efficiency. It had taken significant time and effort to perfect the materials to the marketable level that the Company reached in 1998.

Based on this technology, a new entity was formed in 2001 – Stardust Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Bellevue, WA. The Talyanskys joined the new corporation as the VP of R&D and the CTO. Stardust Materials, LLC, became the largest shareholder of the corporation. Pitching a business strategy that relied upon the up-converting taggant products, Stardust Technologies, Inc., managed to raise about $12 million of financing in 2002 despite the negative market impact of the 9/11.

The Talyanskys left Stardust Technologies, Inc., in 2003 and commenced a new ambitious research project. The new R&D effort has resulted in a line of unique optical materials unknown to the marketplace. These novel materials offer patent-pending applications as metametric security marks and latent images / barcodes.

Today, Stardust Materials, LLC, occupies a state-of-the art R&D facility at the East Ridge Business Park in Vancouver, WA .