Month: October 2017

Fresh off the ArXiv: Data mining for better materials synthesis

Fresh off the ArXiv: Data mining for better materials synthesis

Materials design–where the material constituents and synthesis method are determined based on the desired functionality of the final product–remains one of the Holy Grails of material science. A new software tool developed primarily at Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to tackle the problem through a combination of data mining, crowd sourcing, and machine learning.