Google DeepMind Incorporates Almost 400,000 Additional Compounds into Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project

As reported in Nature today, the research groups of Professor Ceder and Persson collaborated on the creation of an Autonomous Laboratory for the Synthesis of New Inorganic Materials.  Using integration with the Materials Project (materialsproject.org), text-mined synthesis knowledge from over 5Million research papers, and data from Google Deepmind, the A-lab demonstrated the autonomous synthesis of…

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Materially better Innovating the next generation of batteries

Professor Gerbrand Ceder inside Berkeley Lab’s fully automated A-Lab, which uses Al and robotics to synthesize new materials 24/7 without human intervention. Photo by Adam Lau   You can read the full article here: https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2023/11/materially-better/      

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Highly Cited Researchers 2023 Recipients

  Congratulations to Professors Ceder, Persson, Ramesh, Ritchie and Wu!   According to Clarivate’s website, “Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research. Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science™…

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KyuJung Jun is honored with the ECS Battery Division Graduate Student Award.

Our warmest congratulations go out to KyuJung Jun (from Professor Ceder’s group), who received the electrochemical society ECS Battery Division Graduate Student Award for 2023, for his work on “Rationalizing Fast Lithium-ion Diffusion in Inorganic Lithium Superionic Conductors”. You can read the full article here: https://www.electrochem.org/244/division-awards/

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Berkeley MSE student Bowen Deng’s (from Professor Ceder’s group) paper just made the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence!

  In this paper he and the co-authors develop CHargeNet, which is a universal machine-learned potential to model materials much faster than with typical first-principles methods. The need to quickly discover new materials and to understand their underlying physics in the presence of complex electron interactions calls for advanced simulation tools. Deng et al. propose…

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Singapore Deputy Prime Minister visits Professor Ceder lab

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Visits Lab

  Gerd Ceder (left), Faculty Senior Scientist, Materials Sciences Division (MSD), shows Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies, Singapore, the capabilities of A-Lab, An automated, accelerated Lab controlled by AI software, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in Berkeley, California, 05/15/2023. by Elements News Read the full…

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Yan Zeng in the A-Lab on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley

Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future By Lauren Biron April 17, 2023

  Berkeley Lab researcher Yan Zeng looks over the starting point at A-Lab. The new lab combines automation and artificial intelligence to speed up materials science discovery. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)   MSE’s Prof. Ceder’s automated lab, A-Lab, is featured at LBNL news: Robots operate instruments and artificial intelligence makes decisions to find useful new materials at the…

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Professors Persson and Ceder featured on “How We Survive” podcast

MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson and Professor Gerd Ceder were featured on an episode of Marketplace radio’s climate technology podcast “How We Survive.” During the episode, they discuss the future of batteries, new materials, and self-driving labs (among other things). Head here to find the episode and listen for yourself to two world leaders in this…

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