{"id":23642,"date":"2016-03-16T22:56:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T05:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/using-machine-learning-to-rationally-design-future-electronics-materials"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:51","slug":"using-machine-learning-to-rationally-design-future-electronics-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/using-machine-learning-to-rationally-design-future-electronics-materials","title":{"rendered":"Using machine learning to rationally design future electronics materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-machine-learning-to-rationally-design-future-electronics-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even if we don\u2019t create a true AI for a thousand years, these algorithms, pared with our exponentially increasing computing power, could have much of the same effect on our civilization as the more traditional, AI-centric type Singularity. Very, very soon.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Rational Prediction of New Materials\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-machine-learning-to-rationally-design-future-electronics-materials.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"255\"><b><center>A schematic diagram of machine learning for materials discovery (credit: Chiho Kim, Ramprasad Lab, UConn)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Replacing inefficient experimentation, <a href=\"http:\/\/uconn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UConn<\/a> researchers have used machine learning to systematically scan millions of theoretical compounds for qualities that would make better materials for solar cells, fibers, and computer chips.<\/p>\n<p>Led by UConn materials scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mse.engr.uconn.edu\/ramamurthy-ramprasad\" target=\"_blank\">Ramamurthy \u2018Rampi\u2019 Ramprasad<\/a>, the researchers set out to determine which polymer atomic configurations make a given polymer a good electrical conductor or insulator, for example.<\/p>\n<p>A polymer is a large molecule made of many repeating building blocks. The most familiar example is plastics. What controls a polymer\u2019s properties is mainly how the atoms in the polymer connect to each other. Polymers can also have diverse electronic properties. For example, they can be very good insulators or good conductors. And what controls all these properties is mainly how the atoms in the polymer connect to each other.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/using-machine-learning-to-rationally-design-future-electronics-materials\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/using-machine-learning-to-rational...-materials<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if we don\u2019t create a true AI for a thousand years, these algorithms, pared with our exponentially increasing computing power, could have much of the same effect on our civilization as the more traditional, AI-centric type Singularity. Very, very soon. A schematic diagram of machine learning for materials discovery (credit: Chiho Kim, Ramprasad Lab, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1635,48,6,64,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-materials","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67984,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642\/revisions\/67984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}