University at Buffalo (UB)
Published September 14, 2020
An article in PV (photovoltaics) magazine reporting on companies racing to find new materials to replace toxic or otherwise unsafe elements in PV modules includes research by Krishna Rajan, a materials informatics expert in the Department of Materials Design and Innovation (MDI).
“The use of AI methods in material sciences have now become part of the lexicon,” says Rajan, who is the Erich Bloch chair of MDI, Suny Distinguished Professor and leads the Collaboratory for a Regenerative Economy (CoRE) center at UB. “In fact, these tools that were very complicated to use are getting easier and more acceptable as computers become more powerful. A key objective of our work is to establish a science platform for AI driven materials chemistry discovery that meets the dual objectives of chemical performance, and human and environmental health and safety."