{"id":180150,"date":"2024-01-09T20:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/microsoft-us-lab-use-ai-to-speed-search-for-new-battery-materials"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:23:55","slug":"microsoft-us-lab-use-ai-to-speed-search-for-new-battery-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/microsoft-us-lab-use-ai-to-speed-search-for-new-battery-materials","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, US lab use AI to speed search for new battery materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-us-lab-use-ai-to-speed-search-for-new-battery-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jan 9 (Reuters) \u2014 Microsoft <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/MSFT.O\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(MSFT.O)<\/a> has worked with a U.S. national laboratory to use artificial intelligence to rapidly identify a material that could mean producing batteries that require 70% less lithium than now, the company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The replacement of much of the lithium with sodium, a common element found in table salt, still needs extensive evaluation by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington to determine whether it will be suitable for mass production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething that could have taken years, we did in two weeks,\u201d Jason Zander, an executive vice president at Microsoft, told Reuters. \u201cThat\u2019s the part we\u2019re most excited about. \u2026 We just picked one problem. There are thousands of problems to go solve, and it\u2019s applicable to all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 9 (Reuters) \u2014 Microsoft (MSFT.O) has worked with a U.S. national laboratory to use artificial intelligence to rapidly identify a material that could mean producing batteries that require 70% less lithium than now, the company said on Tuesday. The replacement of much of the lithium with sodium, a common element found in table salt, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}