Predictive discovery of tomorrow's materials

Throughout human histories, materials have defined eras: the bronze age, the iron age, the silicon age.

We are alqem, a company born in Munich and Coimbra with the belief that AI is the key to unlock the next materials era. Our goal is to discover and commercialize the next breakthrough materials for industries.

Most of the materials powering today's technologies were discovered decades ago. Humans have only ever discovered about 50,000 to 100,000 crystalline materials out of a search space of at least hundreds of millions. Building on our decades of experience in building materials databases, synthesis, and commercialization, we are well positioned to win the race to find the next breakthrough materials.

One of our focuses is to find advanced permanent magnets that perform at high temperatures, are non corrosive and most importantly, can be produced without reliance on single sourced rare earth elements. Discoveries here would address today's supply chain resilience and technological challenges for automotive, wind turbine, robotics and electronics industries. We are also inspired by technological advances that could be unlocked when scientists and engineers are no longer bound by the constraints of existing materials.