AI could shine a light on better materials for batteries and flexible solar panels

A new AI system could “seriously accelerate” the development of materials for technologies ranging from batteries to flexible solar panels, researchers have claimed. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and the Technical University of Denmark developed Artist to speed up spectroscopy, a technique that will be vital for the creation of ‘designer materials’ for future technology. Spectroscopy probes the internal properties of materials by observing their response to electromagnetic radiation such as light. It has led to the development of countless everyday technologies, but existing experimental and computational spectroscopy approaches can be incredibly costly, the researchers said.