What changes in everyday life?
Consumers might benefit indirectly through cleaner and more affordable materials.
THE YOTTABIT ERA / SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY
What if we could search for better catalysts instead of finding them by chance?
A better catalyst could make an energy-intensive industrial process cheaper or less wasteful.
IMAGINE WHAT THIS COULD CHANGE
Important industrial processes might eventually use less energy or produce fewer unwanted by-products.
HERE IS HOW IT COULD WORK
A better catalyst could make an energy-intensive industrial process cheaper or less wasteful. Better computation and fast experiments could help identify materials that make chemical reactions more efficient. Consumers might benefit indirectly through cleaner and more affordable materials. Chemical companies need proof at industrial temperature, pressure, cost and lifetime. Catalysts help chemical reactions happen more efficiently, and small improvements can save enormous amounts of energy or expensive material in large industrial processes. Computer-guided searches may help researchers identify new possibilities that would be difficult to find through traditional testing alone. The reward could be cleaner and cheaper manufacturing, but laboratory success must survive years of practical engineering.
THE QUESTION THAT MATTERS MOST
What could this mean
for my world?
Where's the new opportunity?
Chemical companies need proof at industrial temperature, pressure, cost and lifetime.
A QUESTION TO TAKE INTO TOMORROW
Identify the chemical reaction where a modest efficiency improvement would have the biggest consequence.
About Jim Carroll and the idea behind YottaBit ↗BEHIND THE POSSIBILITY
Is this real already?
This is an opportunity we're exploring, not a promise that the complete result is already available. The research below explains the difference.
What still has to happen READ THE RESEARCH CONTEXT +
This idea comes from the Yottabit research foundation's Opportunity Atlas. It is a proposed application rather than a quantified forecast or evidence of a broadly deployed product.
What would demonstrate real progress? A useful result that works reliably outside a demonstration, withstands appropriate testing and improves an outcome people care about.