Chemical simulations – it sounds abstract but it’s much closer to everyday life than you might think. Whether it's a smartphone, organic toothpaste, or the oil on a bicycle chain: all these products contain an incredible amount of chemical know-how. And in all these cases, the development process started in the lab at some point. Over hundreds of development cycles, researchers have worked their way toward the optimal properties of a material or active ingredient. Until the ideal conductivity of a semiconductor or the desired viscosity of a petrochemical product is given. Usually, such developments take years and cost a lot of resources as well as money. We are convinced that there’s an easier way to do that.

Due to constantly growing computing resources, it is now possible to shift a considerable part of research and development to digital products. Simulations avoid countless lab-based iterations, which massively reduces the investment costs of researching companies and improve their environmental balance at the same time. In the future, the whole thing will get even better, because quantum computers - which experts expect to be commercially viable in the upcoming years - will bring the performance of simulations to a whole new level. With our approach of a cloud-based simulation platform, we are well prepared for the R&D of the future.