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Analytical Chemistry Oct 27, 2025

AI now drives every stage of materials research, review finds

The era has arrived in which artificial intelligence (AI) autonomously imagines and predicts the structures and properties of new materials. Today, AI functions as a researcher's "second brain," actively participating in ...

Nanomaterials Oct 27, 2025

AI optical microscope analyzes 2D materials as precisely as human experts

Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: artificial intelligence. Using publicly available AI foundation models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's ...

Biochemistry Oct 20, 2025

Chemical networks can mimic nervous systems to power movement in soft materials

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical signaling that powers the simplest organisms? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 16, 2025

Robotic platform uses AI to cut chemical process design time from months to days

A team from the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has developed an innovative robotic platform, powered by artificial intelligence, that promises to revolutionize the design of sustainable chemical processes. The system, named Reac-Discovery, ...

Biotechnology Sep 27, 2025

AggreBots: Tiny living robots made from lung cells could one day deliver medicine inside the body

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living robots may one day be ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 25, 2025

AI-driven system blends literature, experiments and robotics to discover new materials

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables. Compare that with human ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 24, 2025

Robots map chemical reaction 'hyperspaces' to unlock complex networks

Traditionally, chemical reactions have been described as one-line "equations" in which substrates, say A and B, convert purposefully but rigidly into a desired product, say C. Naturally, it has been recognized that byproducts ...

Polymers Sep 17, 2025

Color-changing organogel stretches 46 times its size and self-heals

Scientists from Taiwan have developed a new material that can stretch up to 4,600% of its original length before breaking. Even if it does break, gently pressing the pieces together at room temperature allows it to heal, ...

Education Sep 10, 2025

Robots could help kids conquer reading anxiety, a new study suggests

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nervewracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, but for many students, it ...

Nanomaterials Sep 8, 2025

Quantum dot and polymer cross-linking enables 50% stretch capability for micro-LED displays

A research team has developed a next-generation display core material with excellent stretchability and superior color reproduction. The team developed a high-performance color-conversion layer that is more flexible and vivid ...

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