New York City–based autonomous material-science discovery firm Radical AI, founded in 2024, aims to accelerate materials R&D with the integration of AI, engineering and materials science in its self-driving lab. Its lab can create and characterize more than 25 alloys in a single day. The company’s AI system screens billions of material compositions to predict…
Enhancing weatherproofing for solar cells
Dr. Tim Kelly and his team at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) have made key discoveries about why solar cells made with lead halide perovskite degrade prematurely. These discoveries could advance the reliability of a new generation of solar cells. In experiments conducted at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron, Kelly, a professor of chemistry…