A new algorithm mines material libraries up to four times faster than before. It is based on machine learning.
Researchers are working flat out to find new materials for future technologies on which the energy transition depends, for example as electrocatalysts. Due to their versatile properties, materials consisting of five or more elements are of particular interest. With about 50 usable elements of the periodic table, there is an almost infinite number of possible materials. Felix Thelen from the Chair of New Materials and Interfaces at the Ruhr University Bochum, headed by Alfred Ludwig, has developed an algorithm that can investigate material candidates four times faster than before. ...
