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AI model can reveal the structures of crystalline materials

MIT chemists have now come up with a new generative AI model that can make it much easier to determine the structures of these powdered crystals. The prediction model could help researchers characterize materials for use in batteries, magnets, and many other applications.

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Science and AI are not isolated subjects. We have been approaching the same goal from different perspectives, and now we are getting together.

Kaiming He

Douglas Ross (1954) Career Development Professor of Software Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

New perspectives on old questions

Jessie Micallef

Jessie Micallef is a fellow at the National Science Foundation’s AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), a collaboration of MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, and Tufts experts applying artificial intelligence to physics research. Through IAIFI, Micallef collaborates with researchers across partner institutions and a tight-knit community of early-career fellows examining everything from astrophysics to particle interactions. Micallef studies the neutrino, an abundant subatomic particle that remains elusive to scientists.

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