Breakthrough enables 'self-driving labs' to accelerate materials discovery tenfold

Jul 17, 2025
NC State News
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Summary

Researchers unveil a groundbreaking 'self-driving lab' technique that accelerates materials discovery tenfold by continuously varying and monitoring chemical mixtures in real-time, enabling smarter and faster machine learning predictions while dramatically expediting research and slashing costs.

Key Points

  • Researchers demonstrate a new technique allowing 'self-driving laboratories' to collect at least 10 times more data than previous techniques at record speed
  • The advance dramatically expedites materials discovery research while slashing costs and environmental impact
  • The new approach utilizes dynamic flow experiments where chemical mixtures are continuously varied and monitored in real-time, enabling smarter and faster machine-learning predictions

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