NEC Laboratories Europe and NEC Laboratories America have developed MateriAI, an AI-based, material design platform that accelerates the development of new, environmentally friendly materials.
The prototype platform was initially designed to overcome major hurdles in the creation of new synthetic, organic and biobased polymers, such as rubber and plastics. Koichi Funaya, Chief Technology Architect at NEC Laboratories Europe, explains: "To develop any new material, scientists must first navigate the often exhaustive amount of existing information about related materials and then short-list potential new molecular structures for the development of new materials. MateriAI transforms this process by making it much faster, semi-automating the aggregation of data, while using AI to suggest new polymers for material design."
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The prototype platform was initially designed to overcome major hurdles in the creation of new synthetic, organic and biobased polymers, such as rubber and plastics. Koichi Funaya, Chief Technology Architect at NEC Laboratories Europe, explains: "To develop any new material, scientists must first navigate the often exhaustive amount of existing information about related materials and then short-list potential new molecular structures for the development of new materials. MateriAI transforms this process by making it much faster, semi-automating the aggregation of data, while using AI to suggest new polymers for material design
MateriAI transforms this process by making it much faster, semi-automating the aggregation of data, while using AI to suggest new polymers for material design

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