ALBATROSS · Liquid electrolytes
Automated electrolyte formulation, coin-cell assembly and electrochemical evaluation.
Supported by LG Energy Solution.
Watch on YouTube ↗Research theme
We develop autonomous, self-driving laboratories to build large-scale experimental datasets for AI-driven materials development. These data guide the rapid discovery and optimization of promising materials, while synthesis and measurements test predictions from AI and atomistic modeling.
The question
How can large-scale experimental data and autonomous experimentation accelerate materials discovery, optimization and the validation of model predictions?
Connect automated synthesis and measurements with structured data collection, AI-guided experiment selection and feedback from each result to search compositions and processing conditions.
AI and atomistic modeling propose promising materials and testable predictions. Autonomous synthesis and measurements validate those predictions, expand experimental datasets and guide the next cycle of discovery and optimization.
We expand and integrate AI agents and self-driving laboratories (SDLs) to accelerate battery materials discovery. Our platforms collect large experimental datasets, identify promising materials, optimize compositions and synthesis conditions, and validate predictions from AI and atomistic modeling through synthesis and measurements.
Our next goal is to add new experimental modules and connect these platforms through AI agents to build a Self-driving Center for battery materials development, covering materials design, synthesis, characterization and cell-level testing.
Our group has developed several AI agents and established three SDLs for battery materials research.
Liquid electrolyte development, funded by LG Energy Solution.
Read the paper ↗Solid electrolyte development, funded by Merck.
Watch the platform video ↗Cathode materials development, funded by POSCO Holdings.
Read the news article ↗Automated electrolyte formulation, coin-cell assembly and electrochemical evaluation.
Supported by LG Energy Solution.
Watch on YouTube ↗Automated synthesis and characterization of solid electrolytes.
Supported by Merck.
Watch on YouTube ↗Find subgroup descriptions, team assignments and project records, together with the lab’s synthesis, cell fabrication, analysis, automation and computing equipment.
Research in practice
Explore how people, models and experiments can inform each other.
Researchers define the material problem, constraints and evidence needed to answer it.
Conceptual research workflow. This diagram does not assert that every step is automated in the current lab.
Autonomous experimentation →