Build Better Assay Platforms for Materials
Develop more efficient assay platforms to test the properties of materials, thus enabling faster feedback and iteration in materials discovery.
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“New materials create fundamentally new human capabilities. And yet…new materials-enabled human capabilities have been rare in the past 50 years.” The core challenge lies in our inability to reliably design and manufacture materials that meet specific engineering requirements–and to do so at an industrial scale and reasonable cost.
Identifying promising new materials is hampered by the slow pace of exploration. The integration of machine learning, physics-based property prediction, and self-driving laboratories could dramatically accelerate this process. A significant opportunity lies in modeling the vast, unexplored space of potential materials in silico.