This bizarre greeting from Alexandria-based UniStates Technology refers to the interior of every material — a place it seeks to revolutionize.

UniStates Chairman Charles Owens says he has spent the past 12 years and $10 million developing a process called reflexive materials technology.

The technology creates voids — bubbles or holes — in materials like metals, plastics and ceramics. These voids, Owens claims, make the materials stronger, lighter, cheaper to produce and more environmentally friendly.

The internal skeleton is the key to the technology: It allows materials to resist the concentration of tension in one place, as normally occurs at the bottom-center of a steel or wooden beam.

Owens — an entrepreneur and economist — says he never saw himself as an inventor. "I was certainly no scientist," he chuckles. Yet after conducting his own research and consulting with engineers, mathematicians and scientists, Owens realized his discovery could change the way everything is made.

Until recently, Owens, 54, kept his technology under wraps. But following two July press releases, Owens says he has been overwhelmed with interest in the process.

UniStates has applied to the National Science Foundation for a $100,000 grant to further fund its computer-aided design technology, but Owens says UniStates is funded mostly from his own pocket.

Owens' two daughters are the majority owners, which allows the company benefits as a women-owned enterprise. Wendy is the CEO and Kellie is on the board and works at the consulting firm AbleMedia, another of Owens' companies.

Owens also owns a marble tile business in the Philippines and says he soon will announce a "major undertaking in the education field as significant to education as [reflexive materials technology] is to engineering."

Owens is tight-lipped about UniStates revenues, but says if RMT catches on, it could soon be a multibillion-dollar enterprise.