Feedstocks
Mineral resources, industrial residues, and molecular precursors
Industrial Technology · Research & Development
Chemical Intelligence for American Industry.
Developing new ways to separate, purify, and transform materials into valuable industrial products.
The industrial transformation
STRATA
Controlled separation, chemical transformation, and functionalization
Industrial Products
Purified constituents, higher-value inputs, and functional materials
Experimentation and operating knowledge inform better future processes.
What we're developing
Two pathways to industrial value.
STRATA is intended to support both the recovery of useful matter and the creation of useful material functions. The initial development focus is advanced separations.
Separate & Purify
Develop selective processes to recover valuable constituents, remove difficult impurities, and produce industrial inputs that meet demanding specifications.
Initial commercialization directionTransform & Functionalize
Discover how controlled chemical formation pathways can create materials with valuable capabilities such as recognition, capture, separation, and catalysis.
Expandable research opportunityKnowledge that compounds.
As the STRATA system navigates chemical state-space, it records starting conditions, interventions, intermediate observations, and outcomes for all experiments; building an evidence base to guide subsequent work and manufacturing decisions.
Building the capability
A physical interface between computation and matter.
STRATA is being developed to connect computation with physical chemistry. Its integrated hardware delivers controlled interventions and instrumentation records how matter responds; software uses the resulting evidence to inform subsequent experiments. The initial architecture combines external electrochemical actuation, reagent conditioning, and a separate transformation reactor.
Unit 100Generate and characterize controllable chemical inputs using electrochemical hardware.
Unit 150Condition, isolate, meter, and route interventions to the target process.
Unit 200Observe and control chemical transformations in a separate instrumented reactor.
SoftwareConnect measurements, state estimation, experimental records, and model-informed decisions.