AI-driven materials × systems co-design

The right material.
The right system.
Designed together.

Our AI platform searches the full library of advanced porous materials together with the systems they run in, and ranks every pair on purity, recovery, energy, and cost.

A porous material capturing & releasing gas · now capturing
100,000+
simulation-ready material structures
~50
deployment-ready shortlist per campaign
TRL 6
platform maturity, validated with industry
5
application domains validated
The problem

Thousands of materials work in the lab. Almost none reach industry.

Scientific databases hold a vast library of advanced porous materials. A handful have reached industry. The bottleneck is the speed and cost of finding out whether a material works in a real system.

3-7 years

Per candidate material

One development cycle, from synthesis to process-scale validation. Most candidates fail late.

€1-5M

To evaluate a single candidate

Mostly spent on materials that could never survive real conditions or scale.

A handful

Out of everything reported

Advanced sorbents in industrial use today. That translation gap is what we close.

Our approach

We don't optimize a shortlist.
We search the joint space.

Conventionally, the material and the process are designed separately, and each compromises the other. Planck designs them together, in one automated workflow.

The conventional way

Discover material → years later → Force a process around it

A record lab material heats up as it adsorbs and underdelivers in a real cycle. Engineering throttles conditions to compensate, sacrificing the capacity that made it attractive.

The Planck way

Material Process system co-optimized in parallel

Heat management, cycling, sizing, and operating conditions are optimized together with the material, unlocking candidates that conventional engineering would discard.

The pipeline

From crystal structure to cost per tonne, automatically.

Seven automated stages filter the whole library to a proven shortlist, spending expensive simulation only where cheap physics says yes.

01
Structural & supply-chain filtering
02
Stability screening (ML)
03
Gas adsorption simulation
04
Structural flexibility check
05
Process simulation
06
Cost & economic analysis
07
Decision dashboard
~100,000 candidates in ~50 ranked winners out

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Applications

One platform. Every gas challenge.

The same molecule-to-system workflow, validated across five application domains, from industrial flue gas to spacecraft life support.

CO₂ capture

Post-combustion flue gas and direct air capture. Advanced sorbents targeting below 1 GJ per tonne of CO₂, versus 3.5-4 GJ for today's amine plants.

Biogas upgrading

CO₂/CH₄ separation across variable feeds (40-75% methane): materials and processes optimized for a range of conditions, not a single design point.

Methane storage

Adsorbed natural gas for maritime transport and stationary storage at roughly one third of the pressure, cutting tank, compressor, and infrastructure costs.

Hydrogen storage

Ambient and cryogenic storage, where hydrogen-metal interactions demand quantum-level accuracy, applied only where the physics requires it.

Oxygen for space

ESA-funded feasibility work on adsorbed oxygen storage for spacecraft, proving the platform adapts to non-standard gases and extreme environments.

Your separation challenge

A different gas, feed, or constraint? The pipeline adapts its physics per problem.

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Validation
Platform at Technology Readiness Level 6

Proven where it counts: with industry and in the lab.

Paid industrial project

CO₂ capture screening delivered to SLB Capturi: full process simulation, system sizing, and techno-economics within the customer's own industrial framework.

Experimentally validated

Predicted isotherms confirmed against partner-lab measurements, closing the loop between simulation and experiment.

Patent filed

System-level patent application on the integrated material-process design methodology.

Trusted by partners and programmes across energy and space

SLB Capturi European Space Agency NVIDIA Google AWS Innovation Norway EIT Manufacturing Hydrogen Europe

Have a gas separation or storage challenge?

Tell us your feed, your constraints, and your targets. We'll tell you which material-process pair wins, and what it costs per tonne.

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