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AI helps design new materials that work in the real world

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence · news.mit.edu · By Zach Winn | MIT News · August 26, 2026

The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically unstable designs.

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