# Chemicals & Materials

> The chemicals and materials industry commercializes university research in polymer science, catalysis, and computational materials discovery into coatings, composites, and specialty chemicals. Major players maintain long-running sponsored-research relationships with university materials centers and recruit steadily from chemistry and chemical-engineering PhD programs. Increasingly, machine-learning-driven materials discovery has tightened the loop between academic computational chemists and industrial R&D pipelines.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/industries/chemicals-materials/](https://selltoscientists.com/industries/chemicals-materials/)*

**Market size:** $5.7T
**Target researcher profile:** Polymer chemists, materials scientists, computational chemists, and chemical engineers working on specialty materials, catalysis, and sustainable polymers

## Use cases

- Specialty-materials IP licensing
- Recruiting polymer and materials PhDs
- Sponsored research with university materials centers
- Computational-materials platform validation
- Joint development on sustainable polymers
- Academic consortium membership

## Representative companies

- BASF
- Dow
- DuPont
- 3M
- Covestro
- Solvay
- Celanese
- Carbon
- Mango Materials
- Evonik

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