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Photo Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n<\/p>\n

A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers has developed a new artificial intelligence tool that could help accelerate quality control and testing of new materials, driving innovation, lowering costs, and removing developmental bottlenecks.<\/p>\n

SpectroGen is a generative AI tool<\/a> revealed in a recent study published in Matter that researchers are using as a virtual spectrometer to turbocharge material-scanning capabilities, according to a report<\/a> shared by Phys.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The advancement of more efficient batteries<\/a>, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals<\/a> relies on the discovery of new materials to improve their functionality, but verifying their quality involves costly and time-consuming processes using specialized instruments, MIT explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Certain spectroscopic<\/a> modalities reveal the specific properties of a material. Infrared scanning can show a material’s molecular groups, while X-ray diffraction exposes the crystal structures within them, and Raman scattering provides insight into a material’s molecular vibrations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of these tests, although essential to analyzing the quality of new materials, can make the process time-consuming and require access to high-quality instruments specific to each need.<\/p>\n

The MIT engineering team developed SpectroGen to use mathematics to extrapolate data from several different modalities from a single infrared spectra<\/a> scan.<\/p>\n


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“We think that you don’t have to do the physical measurements in all the modalities you need, but perhaps just in a single, simple, and cheap modality,” said study co-author and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, Loza Tadesse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, efficiency, and quality of manufacturing.”<\/p>\n

The National Institute of Standards and Technology also expressed the potential of artificial intelligence<\/a> and machine learning to advance the development of advanced materials in its 2023 Environmental Scan report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By focusing on specific qualities such as improved conductivity, self-healing, and increased strength<\/a>, these new materials can outperform traditional ones and drive innovation.<\/p>\n

“Using AI and ML, material development can be done faster, more precisely, and at a lower cost,” NIST concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This could include testing new components<\/a> for use in next-generation fusion reactors, improved cathode materials<\/a> for more efficient and longer-lasting batteries, plastic-free alternatives<\/a>, or simply more resilient building materials<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After providing the AI systems with over 6,000 mineral samples, SpectroGen’s neural network learned the correlations among them. By using spectra from a material in one modality, such as infrared, it was possible to generate spectral results from another modality, such as X-ray scans, the MIT report detailed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When checking results against minerals not in the initial dataset, the team found that SpectroGen generated a variety of spectral results from a single scan, with 99% correlation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This can reduce the costs of material analysis and accelerate the discovery of new materials that could improve life for people across the globe.<\/p>\n

Improved solar panels<\/a> could further reduce reliance on dirty fuels<\/a>, while innovative self-healing electrodes<\/a> could produce green hydrogen<\/a> fuel without relying on precious metals, just to name a few.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the MIT team, there are myriad potential applications for this new technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I think of it as having an agent or co-pilot, supporting researchers, technicians, pipelines, and industry,” said Tadesse. “We plan to customize this for different industries’ needs.”<\/p>\n

Join our free newsletter<\/a> for weekly updates on the latest innovations improving our lives and shaping our future, and don’t miss this cool list<\/a> of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.<\/p>\n

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