The most recent high-tech wrinkle in nonstickiness is a coating referred to as ceramic-titanium, developed in Denmark and used on Scanpan cookware. A mix of titanium and a ceramic, so scorching (30,000 levels) that their atoms are damaged down right into a cloud of charged particles (Techspeak: a plasma), is fired at supersonic velocity on the floor of an aluminum pan, the place it anchors itself proper into the steel, making an especially exhausting, unscratchable floor.