Machine learning boosts search for new materials

Scientists have developed deep-learning models that can sift through the massive amounts of data generated by X-ray diffraction techniques

29-Dec-2023 - Scientists from theUniversity of Rochestersay deep learning can supercharge a technique that is already the gold standard for characterizing new materials. In annpj Computational Materialspaper, the interdisciplinary team describes models they developed to better leverage the massive amounts ...

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TGFS invests in start-up for AI-based software for microstructure analysis

21-Sep-2023 - TGFS Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen announces its investment in MiViA GmbH. MiViA is a spin-off of the Institute for Metal Forming at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. At the interface between materials and AI expertise, the founding team has developed mivia.ai, a product to accelerate and standardize ...

How to tell if that plastic bottle or bag has recycled material in it

27-Sep-2022 - To encourage more recycling, the U.K. taxes single-use plastic products containing less than 30% recycled material. But aside from a manufacturer’s word, there isn’t an easy way to verify this composition. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering have developed a ...

AI deciphers atomic-scale images for better batteries

Researchers answered long-standing questions about an emerging type of rechargeable battery posing competition to lithium-ion chemistry

21-Feb-2022 - Today’s rechargeable batteries are a wonder, but far from perfect. Eventually, they all wear out, begetting expensive replacements and recycling. “But what if batteries were indestructible?” asks William Chueh, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University and ...

Artificial neural network resolves puzzles from condensed matter physics

Which is the perfect quantum theory?

16-Jul-2019 - For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a quantum phenomenon best? A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Harvard University in the United States has now successfully deployed artificial neural ...

Oculyze receives investment boost

01-Apr-2019 - Oculyze announced that it had secured a seven figure investment from Constantia New Business (CNB) GmbH headquartered in Vienna, Austria. CNB is a venture capital investor working with high-tech startups inspired by the idea of creating impactful companies and joins Oculyze’s existing investor ...

Anton Paar acquires product line for particle characterization

08-Jun-2017 - Anton Paar expands the product portfolio for particle characterization by the acquisition of the corresponding division from CILAS (Orléans, France). The PSA instruments are based on the light scattering principle or image analysis. They give information about the size distribution and shape of ...

Method improves accuracy of imaging systems

09-Feb-2017 - New research provides scientists looking at single molecules or into deep space a more accurate way to analyze imaging data captured by microscopes, telescopes and other devices. The improved method for determining the position of objects captured by imaging systems is the result of new research ...

New technique provides detailed views of metals’ crystal structure

Method uses readily available tools to quickly determine materials’ properties.

12-Jul-2016 - Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new combination of methods that can provide detailed information about the microstructure of polycrystalline metals. Such materials — composed of a random matrix of multiple small crystals rather than one single large crystal — are widely used for ...

Chemistry breakthrough sheds new light on illness and health

14-May-2013 - From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures. Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current contrast agents and dyes are expensive, ...