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Data, analytics and technological capabilities to help you achieve commercial success, maintain safety and compliant manufacturing processes

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R&D Solutions
for CHEMICALS

Data, analytics and technological capabilities to help you achieve commercial success, maintain safety and compliant manufacturing processes

Get started

Design your product development process for commercial success, chemical safety, and sustainability

As the chemical industry confronts increasing regulatory pressures, the demand for highly-customized performance products featuring new materials only continues to expand. In order to ensure that safety and quality are not sacrificed, it is essential for companies in this industry to plan strategically for long-term success.

R&D Solutions for Chemical R&D

Elsevier R&D Solutions empowers chemists to choose the right chemistry target more quickly and de-risk the New Product Development process from regulatory pressure with access to essential chemistry research.

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R&D Solutions for Chemical Manufacturing Excellence

Elsevier R&D Solutions empowers manufacturing engineers to more quickly design, test and train staff to achieve a safe, compliant and efficient chemical production line with visibility into chemical engineering data.

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Ready to innovate?

Elsevier's The Hive is now accepting applications for engineering-intensive companies. Does your company have what it takes?

Ready to innovate

Chemtiva: New chemicals and materials solution in beta

Dynamic economic factors are generating challenges and risks for product lifecycles, putting increased pressure on decisions at chemicals and materials companies.

Better inform the product lifecycle

Chemtiva is a web-based decision support solution that combines scientific and commercial information to help professionals in the chemicals and materials industries reduce risk, increase productivity and make better decisions across the product development lifecycle.

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Discover the stories of Compact Membrane Systems

Elsevier’s R&D Solutions for Chemicals team visited CMS to find out how CMS relies on innovation to grow the company, and the value of scientific research in addressing industry challenges.

Innovation: The vital key to success

CMS’s business model is 100% reliant on innovation. Learn how the company’s approach to innovation drives their success.

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Leveraging scientific research to address industry challenges

Discover how CMS uses scientific literature to understand industry problems that the company is uniquely positioned to solve – presently, and in the future.

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What our customers say

Preventing corrosion in an acetic acid tank - Chemicals & Materials | Elsevier R&D Solutions


Preventing corrosion in an acetic acid tank

A chemical company noticed a corrosion problem in some metal tanks where the tanks were exposed to vapor, but not liquid. The team leveraged the vast repository of chemical data on Knovel. See how they solved the problem — and prevented disaster.

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A fast, 'green' solution - R&D Solutions |Elsevier


A fast, green solution

An R&D team needed to produce a new monomer based on biological feedstock quickly and inexpensively. Using ScienceDirect first saved them $200 million and a year of research.

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Ideas and insights for industry professionals

Leading in green & sustainable chemistry

Leading in green & sustainable chemistry - Chemicals & Materials |Elsevier R&D Solutions

The chemicals industry is poised to be a leading force in green chemistry, but first companies must learn how to get all the value they can from their sustainability efforts.  Find out how to overcome challenges and promote a green revolution.
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Instituting safer chemical substitutions

Instituting safer chemical substitutions - Chemicals & Materials |Elsevier R&D Solutions

More R&D teams and manufacturing facilities today are replacing substances of very high concern (SVHC) with safer ones that deliver the same functionality to the final product. Find out how the industry can accomplish this more effectively.
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Use industry insights to create new ideas

What would your company develop if they knew well ahead of time which industries would take off? What ways could you change the world? Find out what it will really take to develop commercially successful products 10, 20 or 30 years from now?

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Elsevier's R&D Solutions for Chemicals

Reaxys

Quickly access a cross-disciplinary view of actionable, real-world data on substance properties, reactions and synthesis routes in order to assess every stage of a project and get from concept to market successfully with minimum financial risk.
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Knovel

Tackle development and production challenges by gaining visibility on substance suitability for specific applications and best practice data relevant to piping, chemical engineering and processing, and EHS compliance.
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ScienceDirect

Validate opportunities for NPD growth and optimize research and experimental approaches by providing visibility and in-depth insights on the latest state-of-the-art chemistry developments and chemical applications.
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Scopus

Detect trends, find partnerships and identify experts to stay on the cutting edge of research through the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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How we help

Elsevier's R&D Solutions provide research data and analytics technologies, helping chemical companies launch commercially successful new compounds and improve existing ones — all while efficiently managing costs, chemical safety and regulation. Reaxys, Knovel, ScienceDirect, and Scopus are all supported by the unique foundation of Elsevier's deep expertise in data, science and technology.