Materials from thought

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The vision brought forward by Mr. Ceder is truly spectacular: designing new and innovative materials in an (almost) automated manner with no need for expensive experiments and trial and error. In my opinion, we are heading in this direction and it is most likely that we will have tools to design new materials in this efficient manner sometime in the future. However, achieving this will probably take several decades: Although sophisticated, the simulation techniques we are currently using are based on a simplified and approximate description of materials. Currently, nobody would purely rely on simulation results of material properties without double-checking those via experiments. Improving these methods will need great advancements in mathematics, material physics, and computer science. If such improvements are made, it will take quite some time to verify and validate them so that they can be relied on.

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