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UConn Joins Hunt for New Materials

Rampi Ramprasad, professor of materials science and engineering, received a grant from the Toyota Research Institute. The project will involve design of functional polymers using advanced quantum mechanical computations and machine learning. Photo taken on March 30, 2017. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn researcher Ramamurthy Ramprasad is working to identify new polymers as part of the Toyota Research Institute’s new $35 million initiative using AI to accelerate materials science discovery.