‘Chemistry will no longer be an exclusive club’: how AI is changing Omar Yaghi’s work

Omar Yaghi

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UC Berkeley’s reticular chemistry pioneer tells us about his new institute using AI to tackle climate change

Reticular chemistry pioneer Omar Yaghi has co-founded a new institute focused on using AI to tackle climate challenges. He spoke to Chemistry World about what the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet at the University of California, Berkeley’s college of computing, data science and society aims to achieve and how AI will change the way we do chemistry.