A team of researchers at the University of Konstanz has succeeded in adapting an artificial intelligence (AI) system to reliably assist with making nanoparticle measurements which speeds up the research process significantly.

The findings have been published in Scientific Reports (“Pre-trained artificial intelligence-aided analysis of nanoparticles using the segment anything model”).

Nanoparticle researchers spend most of their time on one thing: counting and measuring nanoparticles. Each step of the way, they have to check their results. They usually do this by analyzing microscopic images of hundreds of nanoparticles packed tightly together. Counting and measuring them takes a long time, but this work is essential for completing the statistical analyses required for conducting the next, suitably optimized nanoparticle synthesis.