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Can artificial intelligence create the next wonder material?

07 June 2016 This article did not make it clear that the director of the Materials Genome Project is Kristin Persson, and that she has an affiliation with the University of California, Berkeley. The text has now been amended.

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Some researchers believe that machine-learning techniques can revolutionize how materials science is done.

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  • 07 June 2016

    This article did not make it clear that the director of the Materials Genome Project is Kristin Persson, and that she has an affiliation with the University of California, Berkeley. The text has now been amended.

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    This article wrongly implied that the phrase 'materials genome' was invented solely by Gerbrand Ceder. It was independently invented and copyrighted by Zi-Kui Liu of Pennsylvania State University. The text has been amended.

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    This story originally omitted Gerbrand Ceder’s first name.

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Nosengo, N. Can artificial intelligence create the next wonder material?. Nature 533, 22–25 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/533022a

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