Dematerialization

Dematerialization may refer to:

• Dematerialization (economics) - the reduction in the quantity of materials required to serve economic functions (doing more with less).
• Dematerialization (securities) - moving from handling paper securities certificates to book form, usually electronic.
  • Demat accounts - a type of banking account in India where paper-based physical shares are stored electronically.
• Dematerialization of the art object - an idea in conceptual art where the art object is no longer material.
• Dematerialization (products) - using less or no material to deliver the same level of functionality.
• Materialization (science fiction) - fictional movement of objects without traveling through space.
• Teleportation (disambiguation) - the movement of objects from one place to another without travelling through space.