MATERIALSDECODED

Matter, translated.

AI and materials,decoded honestly.

Original writing on materials informatics, AI for materials discovery, and the unglamorous engineering that makes scientific data worth trusting. When fixing a bug lowers a model's score, the lower number gets published.

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Lithium has two chokepoints, and they sit in different countries

Chile ships 79% of the world's traded lithium carbonate. China ships 74% of the hydroxide. Which chokepoint you face depends on your battery chemistry.

24 Sept 2026

Claude Skills for materials science: what actually exists right now

25 Aug 2026

Two governments, one shipment, two different numbers

19 Aug 2026

Denmark's wind turbines will not be a rare earth mine

18 Aug 2026

Do materials databases agree with each other? I measured it

16 Aug 2026

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Materials informatics, AI for materials and the data quality underneath, written up honestly.

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Production, supply concentration, prices and end uses for 18 materials, each with nine cited angles.

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Hands-on materials informatics lessons, and a directory of databases, tools and datasets.

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