Accelerated development and manufacturing processes for rubber compounds

Software supports formulation and processing conditions for tire treads

07-Aug-2024 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS in Halle (Saale) is working with six partners to develop intelligent algorithms and methods that support the production of application-optimized rubber compounds. The goal is software that uses information on formulation ...

Sharing chemical knowledge between human and machine

Research team develops AI tool that translates chemical structures into machine-readable codes

23-Aug-2023 - Researchers from the University of Jena, the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences and the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague have developed a platform that uses artificial neural networks to translate chemical structural formulae into machine-readable form. With this platform, ...

Making the most of minuscule metal mandalas

This achievement has the potential to drive new discoveries and advancements in fields like catalysis, medicine, and beyond

23-Jun-2023 - To unveil the previously elusive behavior and stability of complex metal compounds found in aqueous solutions called 'POMs', researchers at the University of Vienna have created a speciation atlas now published in Science Advances. This achievement has the potential to drive new discoveries and ...

Automated simulation software creates a world map of polymer properties

02-Jan-2023 - “Materials informatics (MI), a new branch of materials research that combines materials data with data science, is gaining traction,” said co-corresponding author Yoshihiro Hayashi, assistant professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics in the Research Organization of Information and Science ...

Battery research - First online database on photocharged materials developed

Data was extracted from scientific articles published in the past 40 years and now is available in the form of interactive graphs online

31-Oct-2022 - Dr. Aleksandr Savateev, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, has developed a unique online database. To do so, he has analyzed and standardized research data from 300 papers published over the past forty years in the field of photocharged semiconductors. The ...

Data analytics start-up Carbon Minds partners with BASF

Provide consistent chemical carbon footprint data in alignment with BASF standard methodology

07-Sep-2022 - Carbon Minds, the provider of the largest and most regionalized LCA database for chemicals and plastics, has partnered with BASF to provide comprehensive and consistent product carbon footprint (PCF) data for chemicals and plastics in alignment with the BASF PCF methodology. The partnership is ...

More Data in Chemistry

Clearer reporting of negative experimental results would improve reaction planning in chemistry

13-Jun-2022 - Databases containing huge amounts of experimental data are available to researchers across a wide variety of chemical disciplines. However, a team of researchers have discovered that the available data is unsuccessful in predicting the yields of new syntheses using artificial intelligence (AI) ...

From the packet into your food: what harmful substances are in food packaging?

Database of previously undocumented chemicals

01-Jun-2022 - Salad boxes to go, sealed-tray lasagna and apple juice in PET bottles: we encounter packaged food and drink everywhere. A new database shows which packaging contains harmful substances that can be transferred to its contents. It also includes findings from researchers at the University of Basel, ...

When a band falls flat: Searching for flatness in materials

International collaboration creates a catalogue of materials that could impact quantum technologies

04-Apr-2022 - The world’s first catalog of flat band materials, published in Nature journal, could reduce the serendipity in the search for new materials with exotic quantum properties, such as magnetism and superconductivity, with applications in memory devices or in long-range dissipationless transport of ...

The Alexa of chemistry

NSF puts VCU and partners on fast track to build open network

16-Sep-2019 - D. Tyler McQuade, Ph.D., a professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering, is principal investigator of a multi-university project seeking to use artificial intelligence to help scientists come up with the perfect molecule for everything from a better shampoo to coatings ...