{"id":242520,"date":"2026-08-11T05:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/this-ai-can-find-the-missing-atoms-that-x-rays-cannot-see"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:24:44","slug":"this-ai-can-find-the-missing-atoms-that-x-rays-cannot-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/this-ai-can-find-the-missing-atoms-that-x-rays-cannot-see","title":{"rendered":"This AI Can Find the Missing Atoms That X-Rays Cannot See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-ai-can-find-the-missing-atoms-that-x-rays-cannot-see2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An AI model adapted from image inpainting can reconstruct missing atoms in crystal structures with a reported 97 percent success rate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A crystal structure can appear nearly complete yet still be unusable for computer simulations because some of its atoms are missing. Hydrogen is a frequent source of these gaps, and researchers have now adapted an artificial intelligence technique used to repair images to predict where those hidden atoms belong.<\/p>\n<p>The approach was developed by a team led by Giovanni Pizzi of the PSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data, working with researchers from the universities of Parma and Modena in Italy. Described in <em><i>npj Computational Materials<\/i><\/em>, the method applies computer vision, in which AI recognizes and interprets visual information, to incomplete crystal structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI model adapted from image inpainting can reconstruct missing atoms in crystal structures with a reported 97 percent success rate. A crystal structure can appear nearly complete yet still be unusable for computer simulations because some of its atoms are missing. Hydrogen is a frequent source of these gaps, and researchers have now adapted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242520","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}