Industrial systems across energy, gas processing, and thermal management depend on the right materials — to store gases like hydrogen and methane, to capture or separate them as in CO₂ capture and biogas upgrading, to enable catalytic conversion, and to manage heat in data center cooling and long-duration energy storage. The candidates exist in principle: millions of porous frameworks with tunable properties for almost any application. The applications need them, urgently. What's missing is the bridge between them.
Traditional materials discovery is bottlenecked by experimental throughput — a handful of candidates per round, optimized against what fits in a lab. And materials are designed in isolation from the systems they will operate in, by different teams on different timelines. Two structural bottlenecks. Most of the achievable performance never gets built.
