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The World's First Material Design Platform

MATPLAYTM About Us
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Tomorrow's industries run on
materials we'll discover today.
Discover more.  Spend less.  Move first.
Where astralQ bends the curve.

Rapid simulation. Scalable validation. Real-world discovery.

NOW
Battery Materials
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.
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
MLFF + MLH
MatPlay.sim in Action
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MatPlay.sim
ASTRAL LAB · 24/7
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
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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.
Archive footage · Nature Synthesis, 2024
— People
Meet the Team
Co-Founder
President & CEO
JJ Cho
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.
Headquarter
United States
Address125 Newbury Street STE 200
Framingham, MA 01701, USA
Emailinfo@astralq.com
Korea Office
South Korea
AddressWonju, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Emailkorea@astralq.com