Start-Up Companies - Symyx
Technologies, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
Combinatorial Synthesis
Symyx Technologies is applying combinatorial
chemistry technology exclusively licensed from Berkeley Lab
for the rapid discovery of new materials for the electronics
and chemical industries in a cost-effective manner. These
materials include catalysts, polymers, and electronic materials.
Symyx creates libraries of thousands of combinations of microscale
quantities of starting materials, and then employs sophisticated
parallel processing and high throughput analysis to identify
the most promising compounds. Symyx scientists are able to
synthesize materials and examine them for desired properties
up to 100,000 times faster than with conventional "small-batch"
procedures. Symyx expects that its ability to generate and
analyze millions of inorganic, organic, and organometallic
compounds will allow the company not only to increase dramatically
the rate of new materials discovery, but to make breakthroughs
not possible using traditional approaches. For a more detailed
story, click
here.
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