Polaron, a spin-out of Imperial College London’s Dyson School of Design Engineering, is developing an AI-powered software foundation to help manufacturers unlock better material performance. The U.K. startup already has some of the world’s top auto and battery companies as customers. It also plans to target pharmaceuticals, metals and alloys, ceramics and catalysts, composites and polymers and additive manufacturing.
“The mission is to build AI models that can understand and design materials at the micro scale,” says CEO Dr. Isaac Squires, who co-founded the company with fellow scientists Dr. Steven Kench and Dr. Sam Cooper in 2024.“Far beyond just taking images we are building an intelligence layer and using that to accelerate decision making and design to optimize materials. With this, we can have a massive impact on industrial manufacturing.”
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