Several years ago, a catchy electronic dance tune captured the airwaves, leaving everyone wondering, “What Does the Fox Say?” Foxconn might have an answer with the launch of FoxBrain, the first large language model (LLM) designed for traditional Chinese applications. While it’s not exactly what the real fox says, it connects to the inner workings…
Sandia Labs engineers MOFs for selective rare-earth element extraction
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have announced that they are pioneering an environmentally friendly method to purify rare-earth elements for an array modern technologies. This research follows other recent announcements from Sandia, including a new computer simulation tool designed to accelerate scientific discovery. Exploiting metal-organic frameworks The crux of the new…
New tool accelerates computer simulations across scientific disciplines
Sandia National Laboratories and Brown University researchers have developed a new method to accelerate computer simulations, significantly speeding up research across various scientific fields. It was recently published in the journal npj Computational Materials and presents a universal approach to enhancing the performance of virtually any type of simulation — from researching drugs to sending…
‘Slinky’ nanocrystals change color, potentially boosting microelectronics and cell research
A new class of nanoscale materials that act like microscopic mood rings, changing color with temperature, could help measure temperature at the tiniest scales, with potential applications in electronics, biology, and beyond. Published in Advanced Materials, this research from scientists at the University of California, Irvine involves a one-dimensional nanoscale material known as indium selenium…
How charge density waves could pave the way to faster, more efficient electronic devices
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory report an advance in the quest for energy-efficient computing. Their latest research, published in Physical Review Letters, focuses on charge density waves, wave-like patterns of electrons. Using a novel microscopy technique, the researchers succeeded in manipulating these waves, potentially paving the way for a new generation of supercomputers that sip…
Argonne Lab’s ‘AI-NERD’ predicts material behavior with unprecedented accuracy
What if scientific breakthroughs could happen without a scientist running every experiment? A new AI development at Argonne National Laboratory takes a concrete step toward that vision, “marking a concrete step towards autonomous materials discovery,” as a recent Nature Communications’ paper notes. The field of material science is facing something of a quandary as the…
Infinita Lab founder on AI, hardware limitations and the future of material science
For all its promise, artificial intelligence is still stuck in something of an adolescent phase. The tech has shown brilliance in defined tasks, but lacks maturity. While generative AI software such as GPT-4 has captured the public’s imagination, the hardware needed to unlock AI’s true potential is lagging. “I think the hardware is not there…