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TU Delft Researchers Design New Material Using AI Only
TU Delft

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands have designed a new material solely with artificial intelligence (AI), without conducting experimental trials. TU Delft's Miguel Bessa used machine learning to guide the manufacture of two designs at different length scales, converting brittle polymers into lightweight, recoverable, and highly compressible metamaterials. The concept involves using AI to investigate new design possibilities, while keeping experimentation to a minimum. Said Bessa, "Machine learning creates an opportunity to invert the design process by shifting from experimentally guided investigations to computationally data-driven ones, even if the computer models are missing some information. The essential requisites are that 'enough' data about the problem of interest is available, and that the data is sufficiently accurate." ....