Cathodes, electrolytes, solid-state interfaces. Active pipeline with global OEMs and research institutes.
NEXT
Semiconductors & Electronics
Territory no competitor can simulate at large scale.
BEYOND
All Inorganic R&D
Catalysts. Magnetics. Functional materials. Solar. The platform becomes the OS for inorganic discovery.
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Researchers Unlocked
Any scientist, anywhere — no lab, no supercomputer. Discovery stops being a privilege.
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MatPlayTM
Collective Intelligence
The more it's used, the more it returns. To everyone.
No lab?Go labless.No expert team?Expertise on tap.20-year timeline?Radically shortened.R&D budget?A fraction of it.
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MatPlay™
Simulation to synthesis. Closed loop.
MatPlay is the world's first integrated material design platform. MatPlay.sim handles AI-powered simulation. MatPlay.exp handles robotic synthesis at a fraction of traditional lab costs. Together, they form a self-reinforcing loop that compounds with every experiment. Patent protected.
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MatPlayTM
One closed loop. AI predicts. Robots validate. Data feeds back. The system runs 24/7.
AI Simulation
MatPlay.sim
AI-driven materials screening. Web-based access, no hardware required. MLFF: 1,000,000× faster than DFT. MLH: world-first electronic structure at 10,000+ atom scale. Screen 10,000+ candidates.
1,000,000×
Faster than conventional DFT
10,000+
Candidates screened per day
MatPlay.sim in Action
matplay.sim
Coming Soon
MatPlay.sim
Robotic Synthesis
MatPlay.exp
The world's first fully robotic inorganic synthesis system, running autonomously around the clock. Validated through peer-reviewed research and deployed within global industry leaders. Real-world proof, not projection.
1,000+
Syntheses per week
50×
Faster than human researchers
MatPlay.exp in Action
matplay.exp
Coming Soon
MatPlay.exp
4 Steps. One Loop.
01
Define
Target properties, constraints, discovery mode.
02
Simulate
10K compositions/day with MatPlay.sim.
03
Experiment
Robotic synthesis + characterization with MatPlay.exp.
04
Map
Phase diagram + optimal synthesis route.
Technology 1
MLFF
A physics-aware AI grounded in quantum mechanics. Achieves DFT-level accuracy at a fraction of the cost. Enables material candidate screening at a scale conventional simulation cannot reach.
The Edge
Technology 2
Hybrid-MLFF & MLH
A hybrid force field combining physics-based interactions, neural-network corrections, and refinement through high-throughput experiments. The world's first ML approach to full electronic structure calculation at scale. Goes beyond stability to reveal properties no other model can reach. Big Tech has MLFF. Nobody has this.
Technology 3
ASTRAL Lab
The world's first fully robotic inorganic synthesis system, running autonomously around the clock. Validated in Nature Synthesis, Science, and ACS Engineering. Deployed within global industry leaders for years.
Competitive Moat
3-Layer Defense
A unique MLH architecture built on decades of unreplicable industrial expertise. Proprietary synthesis data from ASTRAL Lab creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop. Protected by patent-pending CLaaS (Cloud Lab as a Service) and a closed-loop workflow no competitor can quickly replicate.
Near Zero
Simulation Cost
AI-powered material screening per candidate. Accessible to any researcher, anywhere.
97%↓
Synthesis Cost Cut
Customers pay less than 3% of traditional lab cost. 1,000+ syntheses per week, 24/7.
24/7
Autonomous Loop
AI predicts. Robots synthesize. Data feeds back. The moat widens with every experiment.
20→1 YR
Discovery Compressed
From two decades to under a year. Closing the gap between prediction and physical reality.
About Us
Built by the people who did it.
astralQ is building the world's first closed-loop material R&D platform. We don't just predict the future of materials.
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— Founded by
20+ Years of Top-Tier Industrial R&D Expertise
Every member of our team has spent years inside the world's leading companies — not studying the problem, but solving it.
Track Record
Automated Synthesis: ASTRAL Lab
The world's first inorganic automated synthesis system
Validated
By Top-Tier Science
Independently covered in Nature Synthesis, Science, and ACS — built on years of deployment at Samsung Electronics (SAIT).
VP at Samsung Semiconductor, Samsung Research America, and Samsung Fine Chemicals. Principal Researcher at A123Systems. Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, KAIST.
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer
Lincoln Miara
CTO at American Power Company and Pure Lithium Corporation. Principal Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor and Samsung Research America. Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University.
Co-Founder Chief Product Officer
May Lee
Director at VINFAST. Senior Engineer at Synopsys. Scientific Specialist at QuantumWise. Principal Engineer at Samsung SDI. Ph.D. in Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg Mainz University (Max-Planck Institute).
Co-Founder Chief Scientific Officer
Wenhao Sun
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan. Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.
Chief Innovation Officer
Masoud Aryanpour
Lead Engineer at L&T Technology Services. Battery Modeling Expert at Farasis Energy. Sr. Staff Engineer at Samsung Research America. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.
Chief Operating Officer
Heidi Grenek
COO at NSF Energy Storage Engine and Pure Lithium Corporation. Former Director at Corning and Xerox. MBA, MIT Sloan; MEng, Cornell.
Chief Marketing Officer
Jihye Morgan
Project & Marketing Expert at Samsung Semiconductor, Samsung Research America, and Hyundai Motor Company. MA in Advertising and Public Relations, Hongik University.
VP of Solutions
Wonseok Chang
Principal Engineer at Factorial Energy. Principal Researcher at Samsung Electronics. Visiting Researcher at MIT. Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University.
Advisor
Hyuk Chang
Professor at Sungkyunkwan University Decades of leadership at Samsung — EVP & Samsung Fellow at Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics (SAIT).
Advisor
Kwang-Hwi Cho
Professor at Soongsil University Leading expert in chemical informatics and atomistic simulation, with long-standing collaborations across global industry.
Advisor
Seung-Tae Hong
Professor at DGIST, Department of Energy Science & Engineering Over a decade as Principal Research Scientist at LG Chem — global authority in solid-state chemistry.
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We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us information about you by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you create an account, contract for Services, request information about our Services, participate in interactive features, such as message boards, chat rooms, personal web pages or profiles, forums, bulletin boards, and other interactive features, enter a competition, promotion or survey, call us for customer service, and when you report a problem with our Website.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns as specified above. We may collect this information by using cookies, pixels, web beacons, server logs, and other similar technologies (see Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies).
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive information about you from third parties including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, data brokers, or aggregators.
User contributions. You also may provide information for us to post, submit, publish, display, or transmit to other users or other persons ("post") content or materials (collectively, "User Contributions") as further described in the Terms of Use. You post User Contributions at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and we cannot control the actions of any Website users with whom you choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized persons will not view your User Contributions.
Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies
Our Website uses cookies (small files placed on your device) or other automatic data collection technologies to distinguish you from other Website users. This helps us deliver a better and more personalized service when you browse our Website. It also allows us to improve our Website by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store your preferences so we may customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
Most internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. Cookies are classified in the following categories: Necessary Cookies, Performance Cookies, Functional Cookies, and Targeting Cookies. You cannot opt-out of Necessary Cookies, but you can opt out of the other cookie categories by clicking on the "cookie settings" button in your browser. If you decline the use of cookies or set your browser to refuse cookies, then you may not be able to access or use portions of this Site. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue them. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our Cookie Notice.
Our Website pages, and emails, may contain web beacons (small transparent embedded images or objects, also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count website page visitors, or email readers, or to compile other similar statistics such as recording Website content popularity or verifying system and server integrity.
The Website does not respond to web browser Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
Third-Party Use of Cookies [and Other Tracking Technologies]
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. They may associate the information collected with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites or other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control how these third-party tracking technologies operate or how they may use the collected data. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Your Personal Data Use Choices.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data to provide you with our Website, offer you Services, communicate with you, deliver advertising and marketing, carry out legal obligations, or to conduct other business operations, such as using data to improve and personalize your experiences. Examples of how we may use the Personal Data we collect include to:
Present our Website, improve the Website, deliver more personalized service to you, and to provide you with the information, products, services, and support that you request from us.
Meet our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing or collections, or comply with legal requirements and notice obligations.
Fulfill the Services we provide to you.
Fulfill the purposes for which you provided the data or that were described when it was collected.
Notify you about changes to our Website, products, or services.
Ensure that we present our Website content in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
Administer our Website and conduct internal operations, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
Improve our Website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
Enable your use of Website's interactive, social media, or other similar features.
Protect our Website, employees, or operations.
Measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
Make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Website about services that may interest you or them.
To identify and combat fraudulent activities or transactions.
We may use non-personal data for any business purpose.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with:
Any member of our corporate group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, and our affiliates.
Business partners, suppliers, service providers, sub-contractors, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization). We contractually require these third parties to keep that personal data confidential and use it only for the contracted purposes.
Third parties to market their products or services to you if you have [consented to] these disclosures. For more information, see Your Personal Data Use Choices.
Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant ads to you and others. We may also use aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target.
Credit reference agencies when required to assess your credit score before entering into a contract with you.
To fulfil the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purposes that we disclose when you provide the data.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Data to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, where one of the transferred assets is the personal data we hold.
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use, Services Agreement, and other agreements.
To protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our employees, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of cybersecurity, fraud protection, and credit risk reduction.
We may use personal data to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your Personal Data for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
We may share non-personal data without restriction.
Consent to Personal Data Transfer
We are based in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. We process, store, and transfer the Personal Data we collect, in and to the United States and South Korea. The laws and privacy protections in the United States and South Korea may or may not be as comprehensive as the laws of your home country.
By submitting your Personal Data or engaging with our Websites, you consent to this transfer, storing, and processing outside of your home country.
Your Personal Data Use Choices
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
Marketing and Promotional Offers from the Company. You can subscribe to receive marketing and promotional emails. When you subscribe to receive these communications we will use your email address to confirm your subscription and send the communications to you. By subscribing to receive marketing and promotional emails you consent to our sharing of your email address our email service provider for purposes of receiving these communications. You may opt out of receiving electronic marketing communications by using the unsubscribe link in our email communications. Please allow a reasonable time to process your request. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving electronic marketing communications from us we may still contact you for non-marketing purposes such as fulfillment and shipping, customer service, notices, or to fulfill legal obligations.
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about tracking technologies, please see Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by checking the opt-out box provided on our registration or contact form at the time you submit your information. You have the ability to opt-out of the collection or use of your data for remarketing, retargeting, online behavioral advertising, and interest-based advertising. You may do so by visiting the following websites: www.networkadvertising.org/choices, www.aboutads.info/choices, or http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
Google Analytics and Google Advertising Analytics. The Website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics assists Company with collecting and monitoring data about Website traffic and usage. Google Analytics collects visitation information and identifiers via browser cookies. We use Google Analytics for search term optimization, content analysis, website development, and improving the online shopping experience for Site visitors. You can learn how Google collects and processes data by visiting the following website: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. If you would like to opt-out of the collection of data by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
This Website also uses Google Advertising Analytics Features, which include tracking of advertisements on the Google search engine and on other sites which display custom Google-hosted advertisements, and provide aggregated demographic and interest reporting. Google Advertising features include Google Demographics and Interest Reporting, Google Display and Search Remarketing, and Google Display Impression Reporting. Google Analytics Remarketing uses cookies to track users who visit the Site and display ads when users are on other websites or using other devices.
If you would like opt-out of the Google Advertising Features, you can adjust your Ad Settings and Ad Settings for mobile apps. For information on how to adjust your Ad Settings, visit the following website: support.google.com/accounts/answer/2662856. For more information about targeting and advertising cookies and how to opt out of those, visit optout.aboutads.info. For more information about Google Analytics' currently available opt-outs, visit the following website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. For more information about how Google uses, stores, and discloses your personal information, visit Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates, or include plug-ins enabling third-party features. If you follow a link to any third-party website or engage a third-party plug-in, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these third parties.
Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data
You can access, review, and change your personal data by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page if you are a registered user.
You may also send us an email at info@astralq.com to request access to, correct, or delete Personal Data that you have provided to us. We may not be able to delete your Personal Data except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete information if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law, legal right or requirement, or negatively impact the information's accuracy.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or because other Website users may have copied or stored them. Our Terms of Use govern proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions.
Jurisdiction Specific Rights
California Residents. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of the Website who are California residents to request certain information regarding disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at the contact information set forth under Contact Information below.
Nevada Residents. Nevada residents may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of Personal Data we maintain about them. If you are a Nevada resident and wish to exercise this right, please contact us at the contact information set forth under Contact Information below.
Data Security
This Website uses physical, technical, and administrative security measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss, and unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We encourage you to take care when providing information when using Interactive Services, Social Media Features, and on public areas of the Website, which may be viewed by other Website visitors.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to or through the Website. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained in the Website.
Children's Online Privacy
We do not direct our Website to minors and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 16. If we learn we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected or received Personal Data from a child without appropriate consent, we will delete it. If you believe we mistakenly or unintentionally collected any information from or about a child, please contact us at the Contact Information listed below.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We will post any changes we may make to our privacy policy on this page. If the changes materially alter how we use or treat your Personal Data we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact Information
Please address questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices to info@astralq.com.
ASTRALQ Inc. is located at 125 Newbury Street STE 200, Framingham, Massachusetts 01701.