Our group’s Comment piece, “A Call to Elevate the Role of Processing in AI-Driven Materials Design,” has been accepted in Nature Reviews Materials! 🎉
This short piece was written by Johns Hopkins authors: Sreenivas Raguraman, Adam Griebel, Dr. Maitreyee Priyadharshini, Prof. Paulette Clancy, and Prof. Timothy Weihs
We highlighted the vital but often overlooked role of AI/ML to optimize for processing and synthesis, in comparison to the more traditional search for new compositions with desirable properties. This Comment also reflects the need for a tight coupling between domain scientists and AI/ML experts.
This collaboration has already produced one highly cited publication (picked as a “hot paper” by the Journal of Magnesium and Alloys (10.1016/j.jma.2024.06.008) and is continuing with the follow-on step, a “closed-loop” Bayesian optimization study, is about to be written up.
We hope this work inspires the broader community to keep processing ‘front and center’ in the future of AI-guided materials design.
Reference
Raguraman, S., Griebel, A., Priyadharshini, M.S. et al. A call to elevate the role of processing in AI-driven materials design. Nat Rev Mater (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-025-00846-7