> lithium-ion batteries ... aren’t ideal // The Material Sciences Group at the DoE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ... teamed up with Microsoft. // Usin

> lithium-ion batteries ... aren’t ideal // The Material Sciences Group at the DoE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ... teamed up with Microsoft. // Using a combination of AI models and cloud computing, the tech giant simulated potential chemical combinations for batteries, starting from a list of 32.6 million materials. Within just 80 hours, it had identified 18 promising candidates for new battery materials. ... Something that could have taken years > PNNL scientists have already synthesized one of the candidate battery materials for testing — if it performs well, it could enable production of batteries containing 70% less lithium https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/how-ai-and-hpc-are-speeding-up-scientific-discovery/ https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/ho...