Building better superalloys with AI - A*STAR Research

In Marvel's Iron Man movie series, protagonist Tony Stark relies heavily on the artificial intelligence JARVIS for his superhero needs. Not the least of JARVIS' abilities is designing and constructing Iron Man's impressive suit of armor. Accomplishing such a task would require a deep knowledge of the physical properties of metals and metallic alloys, an incredible feat given the vast number of permutations of alloy compositions. Taking us one step closer to a real-life JARVIS, researchers at A*STAR's Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), together with scientists in the US and Russia, have developed a machine learning model for determining the structure-property relationship in multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs). "The emergence of high-entropy alloys and, more generally, MPEAs, is a paradigm shift in conventional alloy design," said Mehdi Jafary-Zadeh, a Scientist at IHPC.