Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence To Discover New Materials

Scientists teamed up to use artificial intelligence to discover new alternatives to steel in record time. As a result, they discovered three new blends to form metallic glass and did this 200 times faster than it has ever been done before. Fang Ren, who developed algorithms to analyze data on the fly while a postdoctoral scholar at SLAC, at a Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource beamline where the system has been put to use. Metallic glass is essentially an alloy of the future. Normally, a few metals can be mixed together so that the ideal properties of each metal are'added' together to make a'super-metal'.