Create your custom material solution.
Material Screening | Accelerated Material Prototyping | Coating Solutions
From architecture to aerospace, from clean energy to semiconductors: Innovation starts with better materials. High-performance coatings of glass enhance energy efficiency in buildings and advanced alloys extend the lifespan of critical components. Innovation stalls when materials become the bottleneck.
Our customers are technology leaders who drive innovation. Materials are an integral part of their products. Finding the right material solution while developing superior products is a challenging task. Internal R&D teams are focused on key projects with limited capacity for material development.
Trial and error is expensive: Conventional material development is complex and infrastructure is limited.
Time lost is opportunity lost: Timelines are tight. Every delay risks losing a competitive edge.
Simulations require validation: Material ideas may perform in simulations but fail in application settings.
1. Material Screening – Finding optimum materials: Our customers receive curated results from our data-driven screening that integrates experimental design, sample preparation and characterization in a streamlined workflow.
2. Accelerated Material Prototyping – Providing prototype samples: Data generated under laboratory conditions is an ideal starting point for optimization, but the validation must take place under application conditions. We create coatings of almost any possible alloy both on flat and structured substrates.
3. Coating Solutions – Production scaled to your demand: Once a material solution has been validated, the next step is the production at the scale your application requires. We collaborate with trusted manufacturing partners to deliver custom-coated materials for pilot-scale testing or industrial implementation.
Accelerated time to market: Find the right material in a fraction of the time without years of costly trial and error.
Application-oriented development: We go beyond theoretical predictions. Our material solutions are experimentally refined to perform under application conditions.
You define the application requirements and we run specialized experiments to optimize materials and build a dedicated materials database.
Our benchmarking provides experimental data, allowing you to compare material candidates. This supports informed decision-making and helps to focus resources on the most promising solutions.
faster than traditional experimentation.
material compositions per week – compare and identify the best-performing materials for your specific application.
material combinations screened in one year for alkaline water electrolysis – one example of how we accelerate innovation.
We are closing the gap between R&D and manufacturing and deliver material prototypes in the form, size, and quantity your process demands.
Your materials will be tested under application conditions. With established supply chains, we ensure a smooth transition from prototype to large-scale production.
available, endless possibilities.
You choose the elements; we create the physical material solution —tailored to your specifications.
The platform is suited to any problem where composition determines functionality and the relevant space is too large to navigate one material at a time. The following domains represent active and completed campaigns.
Activity-stability tradeoffs mapped across HEA composition space using the Scanning Droplet Cell. Published results across the Ni-Pd-Pt-Ru and Co-Fe-Ni systems.
Multi-element composition screening for CO2 reduction electrocatalysts. Completed campaigns with industrial customers in energy and specialty chemicals.
Reactive co-sputtering of multi-element nitride systems. CrAlN and related transition metal nitride systems mapped by XRD phase analysis, plasma diagnostics, and nanoindentation.
Optical property mapping across multi-element composition gradients using UV-VIS reflectance spectroscopy combined with 4-point probe electrical characterization.
Systematic screening of multi-element alloy composition spaces with integrated structural and mechanical characterization.
Ternary and quaternary composition screening beyond binary TaN. 4-point probe resistivity and XRD phase mapping across the full composition gradient.
MOKE maps magnetic properties across all 342 composition points simultaneously, combined with XRD phase identification.
Corrosion potential mapping via SDC and contact-resistance mapping via 4-point probe across multi-element composition gradients.
A campaign replaces sequential material evaluation with a single, complete composition-property map. A first campaign can serve as a standalone initial study. Multi-round programs use earlier results to direct subsequent runs toward the most informative composition regions.
Identify elements and composition ranges. We will scope the right sub-space and characterization targets together.
Up to 7 elements co-sputtered onto a 100 mm wafer in one run. 342 unique thin-film compositions. Real physical samples.
Every composition point is measured for the relevant properties: phase, mechanical, electrical, electrochemical, optical, or magnetic.
You receive a full dataset showing where the properties you need exist across the scanned composition space.
Bayesian optimization uses results to direct the next campaign toward the most informative composition sub-spaces.
Target compositions are produced as controlled uniform depositions for downstream validation, prototyping, and scale-up.