Good news for battery modellers! 🔋 DFN assumes active material particles are MUCH SMALLER than electrode thickness, but in reality they aren't... problem? New paper from isaacsquires, Jamie Foster, Andres Galvis and Sam Cooper suggests... No Problem* iopscience.iop.org/article/10.114…

Good news for materials science!🔬 The powerful AI-based image segmentation tools from Meta now work for micrographs SAMBA: A Trainable Segmentation Web-App with Smart Labelling By Ronan Docherty, isaacsquires, Antony Vamvakeros and Sam Cooper in JOSS joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110…

Mixed news for materials scientists: You're not going to be replaced by machines... yet! 🥲 "Materials science in the era of large language models: a perspective" by Lei Ge (Ge Lei), Ronan Docherty, and Sam Cooper (Sam Cooper) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Digital Discovery Royal Society of Chemistry

We are already on Day 3 of the CECAM workshop "L2M3: Large language models for materials, molecules and beyond" in CECAM-HQ (EPFL) ☀️ A fascinating panel discussion on "Agents for AI 4 science" with Santiago Miret, Tong Xie, Philippe Schwaller (he/him) and Timur Madzhidov is currently underway.