Better Material Outcomes Using Artificial Intelligence and Simulation

New battery materials are constantly being invented, but there are still challenges in producing them at a large scale and at high quality. Through the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced simulation, scientists can dramatically accelerate translating these materials from benchtop to large-scale manufacturing and in the process provide a way to generate higher-performance materials at scale. Argonne researchers are currently using AI to optimize nanomaterials produced from flame-spray pyrolysis (FSP) in a minimum number of trials. Argonne scientists are simultaneously building a comprehensive simulation of FSP to reveal the physics and inform the AI model. An advanced suite of diagnostics available at the FSP facility will provide validation data for the simulations.