Meet IBM’s new family of AI models for materials discovery
News
Kim Martineau
Materials Discovery
It can take over 10 years to come up with new materials. At IBM Research, we’re looking to accelerate the discovery process using new AI methods, robotics, the hybrid cloud, and quantum computers. Our goal is to unlock new properties and materials to address global challenges in years not decades.
Our work
A new tool for accelerating the discovery of new materials
ResearchPeter HessResolving the odd-number cyclo[13]carbon
Technical noteLeo Gross and Florian AlbrechtResolving the first anti-aromatic carbon allotrope
Technical noteLeo GrossAn AI foundation model that learns the grammar of molecules
NewsPayel Das, Youssef Mroueh, Inkit Padhi, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Jerret Ross, and Brian BelgodereAccelerating discovery for societal and economic impact
ExplainerJed Pitera, Mathias Steiner, Daniel P. Sanders, Young-Hye Na, Maxwell Giammona, Kristin Schmidt, and Tim Erdmann- See more of our work on Materials Discovery
Publications
MDLab: AI frameworks for Carbon Capture and Battery Materials
- Bruce Elmegreen
- Hendrik Hamann
- et al.
- 2025
- Frontiers in Environmental Science
Novel Advanced Low-k Dielectric for 2 nm and Beyond Cu and Post Cu Dual Damascene BEOL Interconnect Technologies
- Son Nguyen
- Huai Huang
- et al.
- 2025
- VLSI Technology and Circuits 2025
Fast And Accurate Machine Learning Prediction of Back-End-Of-Line Thermal Resistances in Backside Power Delivery and Chiplet Architectures
- Prabudhya Roy Chowdhury
- Aakrati Jain
- et al.
- 2025
- ECTC 2025
How AI can accelerate Materials Discovery for CO2 Capture
- 2025
- Canadian Separations Symposium 2025
Opportunities of Scalable and Electrostatically Optimized Electrodes for Electric Field- and Current-Driven Microfluidic Applications
- 2025
- Biomicrofluidics
SMI-TED: A large-scale foundation model for materials and chemistry
- 2025
- ICLR 2025
Featured work
Project Photoresist
We used our accelerated discovery process to identify and synthesize a novel photoacid generator in less than a year — far quicker than it usually takes.