Next-generation materials, including biomaterials engineered to work with living systems. We pursue materials with a clear advantage and a credible path to real application.
Materials and biomaterials are quietly central to progress across industries, from medicine to construction. This division develops and applies next-generation materials, including biomaterials engineered to work with living systems, that can outperform what came before. The questions are practical: can a material be stronger, safer, more sustainable, or better suited to its purpose? Answering them well requires real science, careful testing, and an eye on how a material will actually be made and used at scale. Because materials cut across so many sectors, this work links naturally to the group’s healthcare, laboratory, and global trade activities, where better inputs translate into better products. We are interested in materials with a clear advantage and a credible path to application, not novelty for its own sake. Advances here tend to be incremental in appearance and significant in effect, steadily raising what is possible elsewhere. The division’s role is to find, prove, and apply those advantages, turning materials science into a durable source of value for the group and its partners.
