EMTDLAB SPACE DIVISION

EmTDLab is a company incepted in 2018 with the vision to advance the future of space exploration.

Effective shielding against space radiation remains one of the most challenging concerns of space missions, from satellite on-board systems to deep space human flight. Our goal is to participate in the discovery of entirely new materials for space radiation shielding using systematic materials discovery techniques. New materials have historically been discovered by either trial-and-error processes or serendipity, both of which require labour-intensive and challenging experiments. Our century is witnessing the evolution of computational materials science from a mostly interpretative tool to a predictive one. This progress has a direct impact on industry: it is becoming possible to formulate the macroscopic properties desired for a given application and exploit computers to predict a number of promising candidate materials with such properties to be tested in the laboratory. This not only greatly accelerates the pace of materials discovery, but also promises to lead to materials with unprecedented properties.