Deep expertise at the foundation
Chang-Yong Kim, PhD
Founder and Principal Investigator
Dr. Chang-Yong Kim is the founder and Principal Investigator of SynchNova. He brings over 30 years of synchrotron X-ray science and materials characterization expertise built at major national laboratory facilities. His career spans synchrotron beamline science, advanced diffraction techniques, and the quantitative structural analysis of functional materials under real operating conditions.
SynchNova was founded in 2025 to translate this domain knowledge into automated, deployable software — making rigorous crystallographic analysis accessible to battery manufacturers, materials researchers and critical mineral processors.
The platform reflects a core conviction: physics must constrain every machine learning result. This ensures outputs are not only statistically accurate but crystallographically valid — a distinction that matters when manufacturing decisions or research conclusions depend on the analysis.
- 30+
- Years of synchrotron X-ray experience
- 2025
- Founded in Verona, Wisconsin
- 17
- Years as a senior beamline scientist
Making synchrotron-grade crystallographic analysis universally accessible
Inline quality intelligence, for manufacturers
Transform XRD instruments already present on or near production lines into real-time crystallographic quality sentinels, detecting electrode defects before they become cell failures.
Automated operando analysis, for researchers
Free research teams from the bottleneck of manual diffraction analysis. Hundreds of time-resolved frames processed automatically, with results ready for scientific interpretation without specialist software expertise.
Physics-based quantification, for critical minerals
Proprietary physics-based mineral analysis delivers reliable quantification from complex feedstocks, without the empirical calibration libraries that conventional methods require.