Google DeepMind To Add Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project

Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab

The Materials Project at Berkeley Lab gives researchers access to crucial information on diverse materials. This image shows the structures of 12 compounds in the Materials Project database.

« Google DeepMind To Add Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project

Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

Many of the calculations for the Materials Project are performed on supercomputers at Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.

« Google DeepMind To Add Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project

Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

Robots guided by artificial intelligence created more than 40 new materials predicted by the Materials Project. Data from GNoME was used as an additional check on whether those predicted materials would be stable.

« Google DeepMind To Add Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project

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