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Heather Kulik
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🔬There Is No AlphaFold for Materials — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik
Brandon AndersonRJ HonickyHeather Kulik
Materials AI lacks an AlphaFold-like shortcut: variable bonding and sparse experimental ground truth make validation a central bottleneck.AI found a polymer-network design that made the material about four times tougher through electron rearrangement during molecular breakage.Active learning offers at least a hundred- to thousandfold speedup across seven direct-air-capture objectives, but reliable DFT replacement at two orders of magnitude greater speed and device-scale processing remain unresolved.