UNH Researchers Harness AI to Discover Magnetic Materials_188体育app_188体育在线-平台官网

Beth Potier
Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:45 -0500

Study authors Suman Itani, a PH.D. student in physics (left) and postdoctoral researcher Yibo Zhang. Photo by Jiadong Zang. Magnets are at the core of the technology that powers our world: smartphones, medical devices, power generators, electric vehicles, and more. But these magnets rely on expensive, imported, and increasingly difficult to obtain rare-earth elements, and no new permanent magnet has been discovered from the many magnetic compounds we know exist. Now, UNH researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new functional magnetic materials. The research, published recently in the journal Nature Communications, details the creation of the Northeast Materials Database of 67,573 magnetic materials entries, including 25 previously unrecognized...