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Accelerating battery research with robots

Smart, autonomous and chemistry-agnostic: The world urgently needs new types of energy storage

15-Sep-2023 - Empa researchers want to accelerate the development of urgently needed new energy storage systems with the help of the Aurora battery robot. The Aurora project is part of the European research initiative Battery2030+, which was recently awarded over 150 million euros in funding by the EU. In ...

Falling Walls announces Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023 laureates

“These outstanding breakthroughs will change the face of the world and impressively prove what ingenuity, curiosity and courage can achieve”

14-Sep-2023 - Which are the next walls to fall in science and society? The Falling Walls Foundation has announced the first six laureates of its Science Breakthrough of the Year award. The title is awarded annually and recognizes scientific breakthroughs in all academic disciplines. “These outstanding ...

Innovative solutions for chemical challenges: Harnessing the potential of machine learning

Revolutionising chemical research with AI?

07-Sep-2023 - In a review published in Engineering, scientists explore the burgeoning field of machine learning (ML) and its applications in chemistry. Titled “Machine Learning for Chemistry: Basics and Applications,” this comprehensive review aims to bridge the gap between chemists and modern ML algorithms, ...

Sharing chemical knowledge between human and machine

Research team develops AI tool that translates chemical structures into machine-readable codes

23-Aug-2023 - Researchers from the University of Jena, the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences and the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague have developed a platform that uses artificial neural networks to translate chemical structural formulae into machine-readable form. With this platform, ...

Artificial intelligence designs advanced materials

Scientists of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung pioneer new machine learning model for corrosion-resistant alloy design

15-Aug-2023 - In a world where annual economic losses from corrosion surpass 2.5 trillion US Dollars, the quest for corrosion-resistant alloys and protective coatings is unbroken. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly pivotal role in designing new alloys. Yet, the predictive power of AI ...

When the ­Machine Reports Its Status

26-Jul-2023 - Even if the central concern of digitally integrated production or Industry 4.0 is networking industrial systems – the individual machine remains a central focus point of optimization. The reasons: Networking requires interfaces that must first be implemented on the individual machine. Fraunhofer ...

Efficient discovery of improved energy materials by a new AI-guided workflow

These can help alleviate the ongoing energy crisis

21-Jul-2023 - Scientists of the NOMAD Laboratory at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society recently proposed a workflow that can dramatically accelerate the search for novel materials with improved properties. They demonstrated the power of the approach by identifying more than 50 strongly ...

Achieving perfect temperatures with artificial intelligence

LAUDA starts AI research project with Aalen University

07-Jul-2023 - LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG is working with the Institute for Drive Technology (IAA) at the University Aalen to develop a PHM (Prognostics and Health Management) system for AI-based status monitoring of constant temperature equipment at automotive test stations. The project has received ...

Half of German start-ups use ChatGPT & Co.

53 percent already use AI applications for text generation

04-Jul-2023 - Drafting an email response to a customer inquiry, summarizing a long technical article or as a tool for brainstorming in a team meeting - generative AI for text generation such as ChatGPT is already being used in more than half of German startups (53 percent). Another 11 percent do not yet use ...

A fast 4D look into materials and substances

A project is developing an AI-based software framework that can process terabyte-sized 4D tomography data on a desktop PC

23-Jun-2023 - To visualize processes at the micrometer scale, such as the discharge of a battery, scientists, so far, have required powerful computers that took days, if not months, to analyze large amounts of 4D tomography data. In the joint project “KI4D4E”, researchers are planning an open source framework ...