NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year

Engineers Chris Kantzos and Tim Smith from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland can now call themselves inventors. They are the minds behind NASA Glenn’s breakthrough material, GRX-810. Their superalloy, developed for extreme conditions of air and spaceflight, was selected as NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year for 2025. It was picked for its ability to advance NASA’s mission as well as benefit the public through commercialization. The 3D printed metal powder, coated with a ceramic on the nanoscale level, is poised to be worth billions of dollars to the aerospace industry. Courtesy of WKYC.com. Smith and Kantzos were interviewed by Advanced Materials & Processes magazine in 2023. Read more about GRX-810 in that interview summary published in AM&P October 2023 here.