{"id":236655,"date":"2026-05-06T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:20:01","slug":"artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of next-generation disinfectants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists and computer scientists tapped AI to find new disinfectants to combat the growing threat of dangerous \u201csuperbugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling published their computational-experimental framework for developing quaternary ammonium compounds, or QACs, to kill bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>The method yielded 11 new QACs that show activity against antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists and computer scientists tapped AI to find new disinfectants to combat the growing threat of dangerous \u201csuperbugs.\u201d The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling published their computational-experimental framework for developing quaternary ammonium compounds, or QACs, to kill bacteria. The method yielded 11 new QACs that show activity against antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236655","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=236655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}