What if you could find materials with tailored properties without ever entering the lab? We sit down with Tian Xie from Microsoft to discuss their new AI tool MatterGen. We learn all about what the tool does and the tests they put it through to validate the output. We also discuss the new Azure AI Foundry where they plan to have MatterSim and MatterGen interact and support each other.

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MatterSim page on Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Foundry Labs

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Materialism Team: Taylor Sparks, Andrew Falkowski, & Jared Duffy.

Keywords: Microsoft MatterSim MatterGen

Have you ever read a published paper and wished you had access to the raw data? The journal Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation (IMMI) seeks to solve that issue. Taylor, the current Editor-in-Chief, sits down with Chuck Ward( Previously Chief of Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies at AFRL and outgoing Editor-in-Chief at IMMI) to discuss how IMMI is different from other journals. They cover the history of IMMI, the use cases of the journal, and also some exciting news about Taylor and his position with the journal.

This Materialism Podcast is sponsored by Materials Today, an Elsevier community dedicated to the creation and sharing of materials science knowledge and experience through their peer-reviewed journals, academic conferences, educational webinars, and more

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Materialism Team: Taylor Sparks, Andrew Falkowski, & Jared Duffy.

Keywords: Manufacturing Publishing Scientific Journals

How do we turn plants into plastics and polymers? Find out in this episode as Taylor leaves Utah and ventures to Washington to sit down with Eleftheria Roumeli, an assistant professor at the University of Washington and researcher in the field of biomatter. Learn all about how a fish tank full of "gross" bacteria can be used to create complex and surprisingly strong shapes or about how Eleftheria's research group forages around local shores for seaweed to get the necessary biological materials. Finally we cap it off with a discussion about the environmental impact these materials have and how we should be evaluating their footprint.

Relevant Articles:

• Eleftheria's Research Group [LINK]
• Fabricating Strong and Stiff Bioplastics from Whole Spirulina Cells [LINK]
• The role of biomolecular building blocks on the cohesion of biomatter plastics [LINK]
• Progress in Sustainable Polymers from Biological Matter [LINK]

This Materialism Podcast is sponsored by Materials Today, an Elsevier community dedicated to the creation and sharing of materials science knowledge and experience through their peer-reviewed journals, academic conferences, educational webinars, and more

Thanks to Kolobyte and Alphabot for letting us use their music in the show!

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Materialism Team: Taylor Sparks, Andrew Falkowski, & Jared Duffy.

Keywords: Plants Biomatter Biopolymers Bioplastics