Matt McDermott

Joining the A-Lab conversation: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

👉 Major AI progress out of @BerkeleyLab with Google To transform the future of superconductors, power systems, electric vehicles, and other clean energy tech — we need new materials. A new algorithm to predict them + an AI-driven robotic lab to make them aims to do just that.

In A-lab, we discover new materials autonomously and fast. Excited to see our paper published on Nature today! Really honored to be a member of A-lab team @cedergroup. Thanks to @NJSzymanski and @YanHelenZENG for leading the project! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share our work in @Nature on the A-Lab, an AI-driven robotic platform that automates materials synthesis. It discovered 41 new compounds in 17 days of closed-loop experiments! Thanks to @cedergroup and @YanHelenZENG for leading this effort! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our method to automate the optimization of solid-state synthesis is out now in @NatureComms! It uses DFT data but also learns from experiments to find the best precursors for a given material. We hope this can help guide future autonomous platforms 🤖 😃 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Oh man someone really messed up the mastered audio on the new 1989 re-release. Buzzing and clicking sounds all over it. Very disappointing :(

Very proud of this work - congratulations Matt ! A crowning achievement to your PhD 🎉 🎊

@Andrew_S_Rosen @ACSCentSci @KPatBerkeley Thanks Andrew!!

@mattmcd1 @ACSCentSci @KPatBerkeley Amazing work!!! I'm so excited for you and the team!

Our article on assessing the selectivity of solid-state reactions for improved synthesis planning is available now in @ACSCentSci! Feeling excited as we get one step closer to achieving the "holy grail" of predictive materials synthesis. @KPatBerkeley pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

This work was a large collaboration involving much of the great team in @EfrcGenesis. Special thanks to the @csu_chemistry folks: Brennan McBride, Corlyn Regier, Thinh Tran, and @jrnchem!

Someone vandalized a speed limit sign in Berkeley (on Marin Ave) and I have to be honest I laughed for way too long when I saw it 😂

@Andrew_S_Rosen Thanks Andrew ❤️

@mattmcd1 Huge congrats!!!

Predicting how to synthesize new materials is tricky. Getting a pure phase is even harder (we saw this w/ lk99). To address this challenge, we came up with a framework & tool for coming up with more optimal solid-state synthesis recipes! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2308.11816

I’m really happy to have worked with the amazing people on this project. Thank you especially to Brennan McBride, @jrnchem, and @KPatBerkeley who all were somehow okay with me attempting to be an experimentalist after four years of only coding 😬😎

Stated geometrically: adding another element means adding another dimension in energy-composition phase space. That gives so many more ways you can find convex hull “binary slices” that yield the target while shortcutting around undesired competing phases

@draykol Thanks Murat! Really appreciate the work you did on PIRO :)

@mattmcd1 Nice paper!

@jmdagdelen I just leave the rear seats down permanently now 😅

With all the car break ins in California, I really wish my Tesla (or all cars really) would prevent the rear seats from being lowered if the car is locked. Would really help reduce incentives for prospectors searching for cars with stuff in the trunk.

@Andrew_S_Rosen @jrcaram combinatorial explosion 😢😢

@mattmcd1 @jrcaram Oh yeah? What's stopping you! 😆