machine learning is teaching computers to search for new atom combinations to produce new materials
Scientists from the University of Liverpool have taught computers to sift through the infinite possibilities of atoms in search of new materials. The computers use machine-learning to help scientists narrow their focus when combining atoms to create something entirely new.
This new research will allow scientists to input previously known materials into a machine learning algorithm so that the computer can then predict what similar atomic pairings will produce.
Liverpool Materials Chemist, Professor Matt Rosseinsky, said:
The process is much more complex than wood-plus-fire-equals-torch. At the University of Liverpool they used the research to predict crystal growth. The scientists report explains the experimental discovery of two different crystal structure types by computational identification of the region of a complex inorganic phase field that contains them.
Technology like this brings us one step closer to spending the bulk of our time reviewing results instead of conducting pain-staking research.
Machines are learning what we want from them, and in return they are teaching us how to make sense of the building blocks of our universe.
Computers are helping scientists discover new materials on UPI
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