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Discover NEXTMOL LabPlastic additives are chemicals added to a base polymer to improve processability, prolong the life span, or achieve the desired properties in the final product. They include plasticizers, anti-ageing stabilizers, or colorants, to name a few. Additives with low solubility and high diffusion rates migrate fast to the surface of the material during application. This effect is disadvantageous as the polymer can lose its properties due to volatilization and leaching of the additives from the surface.
Polymers in liquid formulations (PLFs) are found in millions of consumer and industrial products and are used in everything from treating the water we drink to formulating the soap we wash our hands with. The way that they are currently made, used and disposed of is not sustainable. Every year around 36 million tons of these materials are made from fossil sources. Designing bio-based polymers that replace fossil-based ones is a priority for a sustainable future.
Agglomeration inhibitors for flow assurance are surfactant additives used in the oil and gas industry to avoid pipeline blockages. Because oil composition varies with the source, the optimal additive blend must be customized for each oil. Molecular modeling simulations help to optimize the blend and to develop new molecules that fulfill the coming environmental regulations.
Surfactants are the most relevant active ingredients in cleaning products. They mainly ease the removal of soil from a surface by reducing the interfacial tension between the stain and water. With the goal of designing better-performing (higher efficacy, lower dosage) cleaning products, NEXTMOL Lab can characterize surfactants (ionic, non-ionic) by calculating properties such as micelle formation, surface tension, interfacial tension, viscosity, or adsorption in different surfaces.
The performance of friction modifiers depends on their ability to adsorb onto surfaces and form protective monolayers. Understanding the relationship between friction modifier concentration in the bulk liquid and the resulting surface coverage is important for improving lubricant formulations. Molecular modeling allows to model the adsorption process of the friction modifiers and also to predict the friction reduction achieved by the resulting monolayer.
Nature has only provided us with a limited number of bio-based and biodegradable building blocks. Through combinations of polymeric building blocks into co-polymers, it is possible to fine-tune their properties for targeted applications. Molecular modeling allows to explore these combinations and to predict their properties without the need of synthesizing them all.
Bio-based molecules for sustainability
NEXTMOL Lab helps you to accelerate the transformation from petrochemical feedstocks to bio-based, non-pollutant and carbon-neutral chemicals, to design biopolymers and biosurfactants fit for your applications thanks to our accurate algorithms for bio-based molecules characterization.