Our technology
Materials discovery for industrial applications has two structural bottlenecks, not one.
First, experimental throughput. A scientist starts with a few dozen plausible candidates and iterates on the round-one optimum. The search is bounded by what fits in a lab.
Second, segregation. Materials are designed by chemists. Systems are designed by engineers. Different teams, different timelines, different objective functions. Whatever the chemist hands over, the engineer designs around — and vice versa. Most of the achievable performance never gets built.
Planck removes both bottlenecks at once. Our AI co-designs materials and the engineering systems they will operate in — searching hundreds of thousands of pairs in parallel, across the joint space.
Focus area
Gas Storage and Separation with Advanced Materials
Two application families anchor our current work: gas separation and gas storage. Both are bottlenecked by the same co-design problem. Both have buyers paying for better solutions today.
Gas separation — CO₂ capture and biogas upgrading. Conventional amine-based CO₂ capture consumes roughly 3.5–4 GJ per ton of CO₂ captured. The energy cost is the primary reason large-scale deployment has stalled — for many operators it is more expensive to capture the carbon than to emit it. Advanced materials - based sorbents co-designed with the regeneration cycle can target blow 1 GJ/ton, ca. 70% reduction.
Gas storage — hydrogen and natural gas. Hydrogen storage at high pressure drives both tank cost and refuelling infrastructure cost. It is one of the largest unresolved cost lines for hydrogen as a fuel. Adsorbent storage in co-designed tanks can hold equivalent capacity at much lower pressure — a pressure reduction of 3 times that flows directly into tank cost, compressor cost, and station cost. The same physics applies to other gases
What are MOFs?
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a family of advanced materials with more than 100.000 different structures. They are one of the adsorbent families which are included in Planck's screening for gas handling. They have been reported to have high performance for many different applications, from gas storage to functional materials in electrochemical systems. This is due to their exceptionally high surface area and their ability for customization for different use cases. We are testing them both for hydrogen storage, natural gas transport and CO2 capture.
Partners and Programs
Partners and programmes
Planck operates inside a network of industrial customers, cloud and compute partners, public-sector programmes, and research institutions. The platform is used already for commercial projects — with experimentally validated candidates and patent-protected integrated designs — built and stress-tested through these collaborations.
Industry
- Schlumberger (SLB)
- European Space Agency
- Several additional industrial partnerships under LOI and NDA, spanning CO₂ capture / hydrogen / gas separation.
Cloud and compute
- NVIDIA
- AWS
- EURO-HPC
- Sigma2
These partnerships back the computational scale behind our screening platform — hundreds of thousands of candidate evaluations require compute infrastructure these partners help provide.
Public programmes and supporters
- Innovation Norway
- EIT Manufacturing
- EIT Digital - ACCEND deeptech accelerator (pan-European)
- EIT - Rocket up
Research partners
The experimental backbone behind every candidate that comes off the platform: synthesis, characterization, and system-scale testing.
Recognition
- Hello Tomorrow — Deep Tech Pioneer
- ASML — Emerging Deep Tech Company nominee
- Nordic Cleantech Open — Top 25 Cleantech companies in the Nordics and Baltics
- Top 50 female leaders in Norway in 2026