“Integrating Reaxys data into our workflow for systematic access was a breakthrough moment for our strategy.” — Marco Stenta, Syngenta
Optimize chemicals and materials R&D with Elsevier data and tools
Gain critical insights and make new connections through AI workspaces, datasets and tools, built on trusted evidence and domain expertise. Elsevier's dedicated data solutions and services help innovators put insights to work across the R&D organization.
Reaxys automates bringing data together so our scientists can focus on analysis and making more confident decisions.
Colin Sambrook Smith
Director of Computational Sciences and Informatics at Sygnature Discovery
LeapSpace picked out the relevant articles… maybe I would have spent 45-50 minutes in coming up with this list… an hour’s work got reduced to just a few seconds.
Technology Partnerships Manager
Leading Chemicals Provider
The [LeapSpace] response is very, very well structured… the "confidence level" is something novel that I like a lot plus the links to the evidence and then even the ranking of the relevancy. I haven’t seen anything like that before.
Operations Head
Top 5 Energy Company
Making new products is only possible with full text. Without it, we would be selling a controller that would be on par with competitors — we wouldn't be able to have a competitive edge.
Product Engineering Director
Technology Company
LeapSpace for R&D — AI-powered R&D solution for chemicals and materials
Elsevier helps chemicals and materials teams bring innovations to market faster with end-to-end risk management. Our R&D solutions include research platforms, chemistry databases, curated datasets, predictive and analytical tools, and a research-grade AI workspace — LeapSpace. LeapSpace unifies key research workflows in one secure environment:
Explore complex scientific questions
Compare evidence and perspectives
Upload and analyze your own documents
Identify collaborators and topic experts
Designed to prioritize trust, privacy and security, LeapSpace enables faster discovery with confidence.
Mapping the landscape and exploring freedom to operate — Is our idea worth exploring?
Uncover the insights you need to make crucial R&D decisions, faster. R&D teams partner with Elsevier to explore relevant patent data, analyze the research landscape and identify gaps.
Use Reaxys to evaluate prior art and examine technical pathways to understand whether an idea is novel, differentiated and worth pursuing. Dig deeper into the full-text literature with ScienceDirect, and use Scopus for a view of the global research landscape. The AI-powered discovery of LeapSpace supports evidence synthesis at the point of key innovation decisions.
Curated, enriched Elsevier Datasets are used to power in-house AI applications, bringing confidence to knowledge discovery.
Technical feasibility — Is there a credible path from idea to reality?
With Elsevier’s trusted content and technology, R&D teams in chemicals and materials explore the scientific feasibility of innovation ideas, including new materials and sustainable products.
Use AI-powered tools like LeapSpace to synthesize trusted evidence to support a business case for innovation, not just a literature review. Use Reaxys to explore structure-property data, validated reactions, conditions and more. Use ScienceDirect to explore underlying mechanisms, compare technical approaches and assess constraints and trade-offs. Knovel's database of engineering knowledge enables early testing of the processes and equipment needed to bring innovation ideas from the lab to reality.
Development and scale-up — Can we deliver this reliably, at scale and at the right cost?
Elsevier supports bridging the lab-to-production gap with comprehensive information supporting chemistry and engineering processes. Knovel's engineering knowledge encompasses hundreds of thousands of materials, chemicals and substances, with data on more than 100 properties needed for design, simulation and scale-up. Using Reaxys, R&D teams are able to validate lab chemistry under pilot and commercial-scale conditions.
LeapSpace supports development and scale-up by connecting teams to critical insights from across the research landscape, including similar innovations in chemicals and materials.
Sustainable innovation in chemicals — How do we drive a competitive edge?
Elsevier connects R&D teams to the information and technology they need to bring sustainable innovations to market, faster. The peer-reviewed full-text scientific literature in in ScienceDirect, trusted chemistry data in Reaxys, engineering insights in Knovel and AI-driven discovery of LeapSpace all support confident, sustainable development in chemicals and materials.
Identify greener alternatives and sustainable materials, evaluate physicochemical properties, optimize processes for efficiency and safety while bridging the gap from the lab to production. With LeapSpace, synthesize insights across vast volumes of literature and data in one AI-assisted workspace.
Elsevier helps chemicals and materials impact-makers succeed
How can Elsevier support chemicals and materials innovation at your organization?
