Source | Lyten
Lyten (San Jose, Calif., U.S.), a supermaterial applications company and innovator of 3D Graphene, has launched Lyten Motorsports (Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.), a new venture designed to bring Lyten’s material science innovations to motorsports parts.
Launching in partnership with IndyCar Experience, Lyten Motorsports currently manufactures 3D printed parts using Lyten’s filaments and adhesives and is quickly expanding into autoclave manufacturing to meet market demands. Lyten will be further enhancing the performance of carbon fiber parts and identifying metal parts that can be converted into lighter, lower-cost composite parts. Lyten Motorsports plans to develop parts for a broad range of U.S. and international racing series.
“Motorsports sit at the apex of materials innovation, where small improvements make the difference in speed and safety,” says Dan Cook, Lyten co-founder and CEO. “The introduction of carbon fiber revolutionized the sport, and we believe Lyten 3D Graphene can be the next materials revolution in motorsports.”
Lyten’s 3D Graphene is a foundational, carbon-based material that can be tuned to meet the specific needs of high-performance applications, impacting material properties like strength, weight, conductivity and permeability. Lyten is already using it to build lithium-sulfur batteries approaching two times the energy density of lithium-ion while eliminating 85% of the mined minerals, including elimination of nickel, cobalt and graphite. Its other products include composites, concrete and sensors, all built on 3D Graphene supermaterials platform.
Lyten will continue to execute materials R&D at its headquarters in Silicon Valley. It has also opened a design and manufacturing facility in Indianapolis for motorsport parts, co-located with IndyCar Experience headquarters. Lyten has been testing new material designs on the IndyCar Experience two-seat IndyCar for more than 2 years and will continue to use the platform to accelerate part development. The Lyten-sponsored IndyCar Experience two-seater will be active throughout the 2025 racing season, including the Indy 500.