{"id":225210,"date":"2025-11-16T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/from-data-to-physics-an-agentic-large-language-model-solves-a-competitive-adsorption-puzzle"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:15:49","slug":"from-data-to-physics-an-agentic-large-language-model-solves-a-competitive-adsorption-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/from-data-to-physics-an-agentic-large-language-model-solves-a-competitive-adsorption-puzzle","title":{"rendered":"From Data to Physics: An Agentic Large Language Model Solves a Competitive Adsorption Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-data-to-physics-an-agentic-large-language-model-solves-a-competitive-adsorption-puzzle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We show that an agentic large language model (LLM) (OpenAI o3 with deep research) can autonomously reason, write code, and iteratively refine hypotheses to derive a physically interpretable equation for competitive adsorption on metal-organic layers (MOLs)\u2014an open problem our lab had struggled with for months. In a single 29-min session, o3 formulated the governing equations, generated fitting scripts, diagnosed shortcomings, and produced a compact three-parameter model that quantitatively matches experiments across a dozen carboxylic acids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We show that an agentic large language model (LLM) (OpenAI o3 with deep research) can autonomously reason, write code, and iteratively refine hypotheses to derive a physically interpretable equation for competitive adsorption on metal-organic layers (MOLs)\u2014an open problem our lab had struggled with for months. In a single 29-min session, o3 formulated the governing equations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225210","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}