Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

A self-driving laboratory advances the Pareto front for material properties

  • Benjamin P. MacLeod,
  • Fraser G. L. Parlane,
  • Connor C. Rupnow,
  • Kevan E. Dettelbach,
  • Michael S. Elliott,
  • Thomas D. Morrissey,
  • Ted H. Haley,
  • Oleksii Proskurin,
  • Michael B. Rooney,
  • Nina Taherimakhsousi,
  • David J. Dvorak,
  • Hsi N. Chiu,
  • Christopher E. B. Waizenegger,
  • Karry Ocean,
  • Mehrdad Mokhtari,
  • Curtis P. Berlinguette

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28580-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Useful materials must satisfy multiple objectives. The Pareto front expresses the trade-offs of competing objectives. This work uses a self-driving laboratory to map out the Pareto front for making highly conductive coatings at low temperatures.