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There is. It's just that materials science is a bona fide Hard Problem that requires tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in lab equipment (synchrotrons, fr
by semi-extrinsic 8y ago
There is. It's just that materials science is a bona fide Hard Problem that requires tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in lab equipment (synchrotrons, free electron lasers, the good stuff), supercomputers etc. to advance, so it's studied by top universities, National Labs and so forth. It's not really something you can "disrupt".
- perl4ever 8y agoNevertheless, there have been recent claims that it is being disrupted, by the current buzzwords, AI and machine learning. See: https://www.nature.com/news/can-artificial-intelligence-create-the-next-wonder-material-1.19850 https://www.nature.com/news/can-artificial-intelligence-crea...