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Product development strategy: Speed to market

Only one in three new chemical products launches successfully. Further, increasingly complex regulations combined with a need to get closer to customers when launching new performance products has put more pressure on the lab for multinational chemical companies. But ready access to comprehensive Elsevier chemistry data and dynamic research trends helps significantly reduce that pressure and speed products to market.

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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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Customer stories

Thousands of researchers and other professionals working in chemical R&D rely on our Elsevier R&D solutions.

Stay on the cutting edge


Stay on the cutting edge - Chemical R&D, Chemicals & Materials |Elsevier R&D Solutions

Today’s ideas have to come fast. And one way to stay inspired is by following developments — at a global level — in other industries. See how ScienceDirect can help.
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ScienceDirect helps a researcher achieve success in putting a waste product to good use

ScienceDirect helps a researcher achieve success - Chemical R&D, Chemicals & Materials | Elseiver R&D Solutions

"The research we found on ScienceDirect gave us the key to massively improving the quality of a product that’s already on the market in a fraction of the time we’d expected." Lana Tolmach, R&D Director

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Elsevier's R&D Solutions for Chemical R&D

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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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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Moving forward in making chemical substitutions

Moving forward in making chemical substitutions - Chemicals & Materials |Elsevier R&D Solutions

Hazardous chemicals should be replaced by potentially safer compounds in the manufacturing process as much as possible. And yet many facilities struggle to implement these substitutions. Find out how to make effective chemical substitutions.
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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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How we help

Elsevier’s R&D solutions helps companies develop and improve chemical products by enabling them to

  • Optimize research and experimental approaches
  • Locate supporting materials characterization, synthesis planning and yield optimization
  • Evaluate desirable and undesirable chemical properties in intermediate and end products
  • Identify experts and potential research partners
  • Validate opportunities for NPD growth
  • Access in-depth insights on the latest state-of-the-art research and developments