The latest high-tech wrinkle in nonstickiness is a coating known 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 pace on the floor of an aluminum pan, the place it anchors itself proper into the metallic, making a particularly onerous, unscratchable floor.