LiveDesign®
Web-based enterprise informatics for accelerated materials design
LiveDesign is an enterprise informatics platform that enables teams to rapidly advance materials discovery projects by collaborating, designing, experimenting, analyzing, tracking, and reporting in a centralized platform. This collaborative ideation solution enables teams of computational, synthetic, analytical, and process scientists, and engineers to work through problems and share results on one platform.
How real-time collaborative design, modeling, and project management accelerates materials design
Intuitive, user-friendly tools to import compounds from files, run computational models and view 3D results. Search for experimental data, add custom formulas, and flag interesting compounds for follow-up.
Sophisticated, expert tools to set up and modify complex scientific simulations and enable everyone on the team to run the simulations on imported or sketched materials. Computational results automatically appear side-by-side with other data of the same material and are stored in the database.
Customized and focused insights into data with comprehensive, easy-to-use data analysis tools, such as multi-parameter optimization (MPO), multi-dimensional plots, tile view and form view. Machine learning technology embedded on the platform speeds up material design cycles.
Benefits of LiveDesign for Materials
BETTER MATERIALS DESIGN, FASTER

ACCESS ALL INFORMATION

INCREASE RATE OF SUCCESS

DRIVE PREDICTIONS & DESIGNS WITH MACHINE LEARNING
EMPOWERED COLLABORATION

WORK SIDE BY SIDE, WHEREVER YOU ARE

COMMUNICATE SEAMLESSLY

LEARN AND MAKE DECISIONS TOGETHER
EXPERT MODELING FOR ALL

ACCESS EXPERT PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATIONS

SHARE MODEL RESULTS IN CUSTOMIZED VIEWS

EVALUATE MATERIAL CANDIDATES WITH AUTOMATED SIMULATIONS
Drive research in a multitude of industries
Customize LiveDesign for various materials applications and project areas. LiveDesign’s dedicated software engineering, solutions architect, product and UX teams have tremendous experience working closely with customers to build and deploy the exact workflows and user interfaces for customer needs.
LiveDesign can be extended to:

ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
Scale up atomistic-scale simulations and predictive analysis of key optoelectronic properties such as optical spectra, bond dissociation energy, charge-carrier mobility, and thermomechanical stability, enabling rapid design and screening of advanced organic electronic materials.

Organic electronics
Key property predictions with automated workflows and high-throughput computation.
Schrödinger's platform is designed to enable design of high-quality, next-generation organic electronic materials. Our physics-based models and machine-learning algorithms are intended to help tackle major challenges in designing new materials for display, energy, and wearable devices. Schrödinger’s platform predicts with a high degree of accuracy key properties of molecular materials used in today’s organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), organic photovoltaics (OPV), and printed/flexible electronics. Our approach enables discovery of novel molecules more rapidly, at lower cost, with a higher likelihood of success compared to methods based on trial-and-error or traditional molecular modeling techniques.

CATALYSIS AND REACTIVE SYSTEMS
Streamline and automate the analysis, discovery, and optimization of efficient and selective catalysts and reactive systems by providing critical insights through a range of physics-based chemical simulation and data analysis tools.

Catalysis and reactivity
Enhanced in silico design of catalysts and reactive precursors for the creation of materials.
Our platform is designed to enable the simulation, optimization, and discovery of effective, efficient, and selective catalysts and reactive systems. We empower in silico design of catalysts and reactive precursors with enhanced or differentiated reactivity for the creation of materials. You can also use our platform to elucidate the details of a reaction coordinate to understand observed activity, selectivity, and specificity. Our tools include differentiated model builders, an efficient DFT engine, Jaguar, automated DFT-based reactivity workflows, and analysis tools.
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HIGH TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS
Use properties from advanced quantum mechanics calculations and state-of-the-art solid state descriptors to train machine learning models to predict a wide range of properties, including band structure, mechanical, dielectric, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties

Solids and hard matter
Examination of bulk and surface properties in inorganic materials with a high degree of accuracy.
Our platform leverages quantum mechanics to predict the bulk and surface properties of inorganic materials, including band structure, mechanical, dielectric, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties. In addition, analyses are available to create compositional phase diagrams and to examine materials defects, as well as surface degradation and reactivity.

SEMICONDUCTORS
Simulate the chemistry of nanofabrication - depositing or etching materials with atomic layer precision - by using specialized modelling tools for organometallic molecules, adsorption onto surfaces and the effect of process conditions. Design novel chemicals and save time in optimizing processes for semiconductor logic, memory, solar or sensing devices.

Semiconductors
Controlled guidance and time-saving solutions using molecular simulation.
Most of today's high-tech devices, from solar panels to smartphone chips, depend for their operation on particular materials in precisely formed structures. Fabricating these structures at the micro- or even nano-scale is a huge challenge. Chemical reactions have to be controlled so as to add or remove material where it is needed, sometimes as precisely as one atomic layer at a time. Molecular simulation is designed to enable this control by guiding users to understand deposition and etch chemistry and achieve atom-by-atom control of chemical reactions at surfaces. Schrödinger leads the way by providing time-saving solutions for the simulation of surface reactivity and the design of novel chemicals.

POLYMERIC MATERIALS
Employ automated physics-based workflows and polymer specific machine learning to design new monomers and additives, screen formulations, and optimize manufacturing. Capture key performance and process properties such as glass transition, modulus, water uptake, barrier, and reactivity.

Polymeric Materials
Model builders, adaptable workflows and analysis tools for discovery of novel polymers and fluid materials.
Chemical reactivity, physical morphology, and polymer physics drive the behavior of polymers and soft materials. Our materials science platform offers differentiated model builders, an extremely efficient MD engine, automated thermophysical and mechanical response workflows, a chemically adaptable cross-linking workflow, and analysis tools for the simulation, optimization, and discovery of novel polymers and fluid materials.
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ENERGY CAPTURE AND STORAGE
Incorporate and manage experimental and computational data for energy capture and storage materials to explore novel chemistry by predicting key atomistic-scale properties through physics-based simulation and data-driven predictive analysis.

Energy capture and storage
Empowered atomistic modeling enabling accurate predictions.
Our platform empowers atomistic modeling of materials for batteries, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage materials. Our tools, based on the principles of quantum mechanics, are capable of predicting critical properties with a high degree of accuracy, including the ion mobility, intercalation potentials, and load capacity of battery electrodes, additives chemistry at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces, electro-catalytic activity, and degradation processes. Molecular dynamics simulations allow for analysis of elastic and thermophysical properties as well as ionic mobility in organic and solid electrolytes. Enhanced structure building and enumeration capabilities as well as high-performance algorithms enable in silico discovery and optimization of key device components and their interfaces.
Materials Analysis, Optimization and Discovery in One Enterprise Platform
Generate new virtual material candidates with a variety of computational tools. Query, analyze, and visualize existing data to understand structure-property relationships and drive design cycles.
Easily track material development status in a single source, with notifications provided when the development moves to the next phase.
Monitor experimental progress and review results in a single report alongside modeling predictions.
Rapidly test new ideas with advanced physics-based modeling. Examine the results of modeling with easy integration of Maestro or any visualization and analysis tool via a rich API.
Compare experimental test results with model and machine learning predictions, in customizable Forms views to determine structure property relationship and refine predictions. Review ideas and project progression to guide future design cycles.
The Schrödinger Platform

LiveDesign is the linchpin of the Schrödinger Materials Design Platform integrating highly predictive physics-based methods, next-generation machine learning techniques, and centralized enterprise informatics to accelerate materials discovery and design.
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