Materials Nexus
Materials Nexus discover new sustainable materials using AI.
- Cohort
- Autumn 23
- Sector
- Materials & Chemicals · Energy & Power · Mobility & Transport
What they do
Their platform searches for new elemental compositions for novel, advanced materials, designed for the net-zero transition, with improved performance and lower environmental cost. By using rapid automated processes and advanced quantum calculations to model properties of new material compositions, they can bypass slow conventional experimental approaches and accelerate discovery from decades to months by reducing the number of physical experiments which are conducted. Materials Nexus work with partners to produce new materials that can be patented. The ultimate benefit is that the costs associated with the R&D process are lower meaning that new and more sustainable materials can be pushed to market more quickly and cheaply.
Product & technology
Materials Nexus employs use of artificial intelligence (AI) to discover novel materials more rapidly than ever before to solve some of the biggest sustainability challenges– akin to what has happened with drug discovery in the pharma industry over the past 30 years.
Why we invested
- →Using computational physics and materials science to design new materials from first principles could enable the creation of more sustainable and robust supply chains.
- →The business model has been proven out in drug discovery but not yet in the development of new materials. The potential value in these applications is very high.
