Equation 4 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Materials Discovery and Degradation
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Writing the ratio out this way is useful precisely because it exposes the trap: the denominator means something different for each method. For combinatorial synthesis, the denominator and numerator are nearly the same population, because everything proposed gets made. For DFT and ML screening, the denominator is enormous and the numerator is whatever small subset anyone bothered to attempt — so a favorable-looking for a screening method usually reflects a tiny, favorably selected numerator rather than a property of the whole candidate pool.
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- [3] An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of inorganic materials ↗
- [5] Artificial Intelligence Driving Materials Discovery? Perspective on the Article "Scaling Deep Learning for Materials Discovery" ↗
- [9] Duplicate structures haunt crystallography databases ↗
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