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The Lab Is (Not) All You Need: Why autonomous laboratories make atomistic simulation more valuable, not less

Joshua Young Joshua Young

Picture a laboratory at 3 am where the lights are on, but no one is there. A robotic arm lifts a crucible from a furnace and carries it to an X-ray diffractometer. Software reads the diffraction pattern, decides the run missed its target, adjusts the recipe, and queues the next attempt. By morning, the system has worked through more experimental iterations than a graduate student completes in a month,

Lab Automation Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

Changing the rules of materials development with Physics-Grounded AI: how Matlantis PFP came to be

Subaru Nakazono Subaru Nakazono

DFT calculations are the backbone of computational materials science: highly accurate, but notoriously expensive to run. Machine-learning interatomic potentials were meant to change that. Yet for a long time, each model could only handle a narrow, purpose-built slice of chemistry. The breakthrough that finally reconciled accuracy with generality is Matlantis PFP, a proprietary AI model with world-leading performance.

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How to Choose Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation Software: 6 Key Points and 14 Tools Compared

Makoto Ota Makoto Ohta

In the field of materials development, we often encounter atomic-level questions such as, "Why do ions diffuse so easily in this material?", "What is happening near the interface?", and "How do defects affect the properties?". A powerful tool for answering these questions is molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which visualizes the movement of atoms and molecules through calculations.

Molecular Dynamics Explainer

[Presentation Report] Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Doctor's Café #37 & AI Salon #14

"Interdisciplinary Innovation through AI ~Challenges to Sustainable Materials Development~" Event details: https://www.tuat-flourish.jp/topics/event/3832/ July 22, 2026, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Future Value Creation Research and Education Special Zone (FLOuRISH) presents "Doctor's Café #37 & AI Salon #14" (Kogane

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Micro-Physical AI: Another invisible form of physical AI and the future of materials development

Daisuke Okanohara Daisuke Okanohara

What is Physical AI? Current LLMs (Large Language Models) learn about the world from text. Through this, they incorporate the knowledge accumulated by humans so far and are already having a major impact on the world. However, to borrow Plato's words, text is merely a "shadow" of reality. Text only records a portion of what humans have been able to verbalize, and the overwhelming majority of phenomena occurring in the physical world have not yet been turned into words.

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TMS 2026が明らかにした材料科学を変革する3つの計算トレンド

Qing-Jie Li Qing-Jie Li

Conference Report

TMS 2026が明らかにした材料科学を変革する3つの計算トレンド

What Is Digital Transformation in Materials R&D? Accelerating Materials Discovery

Makoto Ota Makoto Ohta

Materials Informatics computational chemistry

What Is Digital Transformation in Materials R&D? Accelerating Materials Discovery

Crystal Structure Prediction Using Optuna in Matlantis CSP

Crystal Structure Prediction Using Optuna in Matlantis CSP

AI pioneers materials development through computational chemistry

Bon Cho Bon Cho

DFT Molecular Dynamics Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials Explainer

AI pioneers materials development through computational chemistry

Learning AI materials simulation to accelerate research at the Fukui Kenichi Memorial Research Center, Kyoto University - Working with ENEOS to design the "best CO2 adsorbent"

Learning AI materials simulation to accelerate research at the Fukui Kenichi Memorial Research Center, Kyoto University - Working with ENEOS to design the "best CO2 adsorbent"

Explainer : Why Did the AI Predict That ? Uncovering Atomic-Level Interpretability through PFP Descriptors and Shapley Values

Bon Cho Bon Cho

Materials Informatics Explainer Computational Chemistry

Explainer : Why Did the AI Predict That ? Uncovering Atomic-Level Interpretability through PFP Descriptors and Shapley Values

Writing SMILES from scratch

Bon Cho Bon Cho

Explainer computational chemistry

Writing SMILES from scratch

Nagoya University × Matlantis Case Study:“Advanced Experiments for Frontier Technologies and Sciences” —A Four-Day Intensive Course That Sparked Experimental Students’ Curiosity Through AI Simulation

Interview computational chemistry

Nagoya University × Matlantis Case Study:“Advanced Experiments for Frontier Technologies and Sciences” —A Four-Day Intensive Course That Sparked Experimental Students’ Curiosity Through AI Simulation

Introduction to Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs): A Game Changer in Materials Simulation

Masataka Yamauchi Masataka Yamauchi

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials Explainer

Introduction to Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs): A Game Changer in Materials Simulation

Matlantis, an AI materials simulation that accelerates research, is taught at the University of Tokyo's SPRING GX lectures. Doctoral students experience AI-based molecular design simulations with ENEOS.

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Matlantis, an AI materials simulation that accelerates research, is taught at the University of Tokyo's SPRING GX lectures. Doctoral students experience AI-based molecular design simulations with ENEOS.

Matlantis gave a presentation at the 26th Asian Workshop

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Matlantis gave a presentation at the 26th Asian Workshop

A new model for doctoral education pioneered through industry-academia collaboration: A "new pilot case" demonstrated by Institute of Science Tokyo and Taiyo Yuden Practice School

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A new model for doctoral education pioneered through industry-academia collaboration: A "new pilot case" demonstrated by Institute of Science Tokyo and Taiyo Yuden Practice School