Amazing stuff!
"The presence of water on Mars offers the possibility of large-scale oxygen generation through solar-powered electrochemical processes with an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst made from local Martian materials.
Recently, researchers in China have developed an AI robot that could significantly impact Mars exploration. This AI-powered robot chemist utilizes local Martian materials to produce catalysts that break down water to release oxygen. ..."
From the abstract:
"Living on Mars requires the ability to synthesize chemicals that are essential for survival, such as oxygen, from local Martian resources. However, this is a challenging task. Here we demonstrate a robotic artificial-intelligence chemist for automated synthesis and intelligent optimization of catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction from Martian meteorites. The entire process, including Martian ore pretreatment, catalyst synthesis, characterization, testing and, most importantly, the search for the optimal catalyst formula, is performed without human intervention. Using a machine-learning model derived from both first-principles data and experimental measurements, this method automatically and rapidly identifies the optimal catalyst formula from more than three million possible compositions. The synthesized catalyst operates at a current density of 10 mA cm−2 for over 550,000 s of operation with an overpotential of 445.1 mV, demonstrating the feasibility of the artificial-intelligence chemist in the automated synthesis of chemicals and materials for Mars exploration."
China's AI Robotic Chemist Synthesizes Catalysts for Oxygen Production on Mars
Automated synthesis of oxygen-producing catalysts from Martian meteorites by a robotic AI chemist (no public access)
Fig. 1: Workflow of an all-encompassing system for the on-site design and production of an OER electrocatalyst on Mars by an AI chemist consisting of a mobile robot, a computational ‘brain’, a cloud server and 14 task-specific workstations.
Researchers working with an AI-driven robotic chemist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei
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