Category Archives: News

Aionics Chief Scientist Dr. Venkat Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, made a big announcement at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference this week in San Diego. Building on his CMU lab’s first robot “Otto,” Prof. Viswanathan announced new work that introduces a novel workflow coupling robotics to machine-learning for efficient optimizationContinue reading “Aionics Chief Scientist Venkat Viswanathan announces at AABC: new initiative using robotics for automated electrolyte discovery”

This week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted an investment from Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital into Mitra Chem, a new AI-driven battery materials development company co-founded by Stanford University’s Prof. Will Chueh, who served as a Scientific Advisor to Aionics from 2019 – 2021. According to the Wall Street Journal: “Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital Holdings Inc. is leading aContinue reading “Former Aionics Scientific Advisory Board Member Prof. Will Chueh Co-Founds New Battery Materials AI Venture”

A new report released this week by the Global Partnership on AI, in collaboration with Climate Change AI and the Centre for AI & Climate, highlights Aionics, Inc. as a case study for how AI can be used to have a positive impact on climate change. The report, titled “Climate Change and AI: Recommendations forContinue reading “Global Partnership on AI Report Highlights Aionics as Climate Impact Case Study”

Evan Reed, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Aionics, Inc., a battery materials informatics startup that spun out of his laboratory in 2018. Prof. Reed’s group focuses on the theory and modeling of nanoscale materials for electronics and energy applications, and materials at conditionsContinue reading “Prof. Evan Reed of Stanford joins Aionics Scientific Advisory Board”

Are there any parallels between cement production and battery design processes? It may surprise you to find out the answer is yes. Cement is one of humanity’s oldest and most widely used materials. Today’s processes for making cement are nearly 200 years old, and they account for more than 7% of global carbon emissions. Dr.Continue reading “Aionics Partners With Chement to Accelerate Zero-Carbon Cement Production Technology”

Aionics is proud to announce their partnership with Japanese chemical giant Showa Denko K. K., now several years in the making, to help speed up Showa Denko’s battery materials design process. Using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning tools offered by the Aionics platform, Showa Denko aims to design and discover quality materials for high efficiencyContinue reading “Showa Denko Partners with Aionics to Speed Up Battery Materials Discovery”

In a new study published this week in MRS Bulletin, a Stanford research team led by doctoral student Brandi Ransom and Associate Professor Evan Reed, and including Aionics CEO Dr. Austin Sendek, reported the discovery of two promising new cathode materials for lithium ion batteries using machine learning (ML) models. The two materials, CrOF4 and NbFe3(PO4)6, appear toContinue reading “Stanford Researchers Discover Promising New Li-ion Cathodes with Machine Learning and Quantum Mechanical Simulation”

Aionics CEO and Founder Dr. Austin Sendek will feature on the panel “Could AI Be The Game Changer?” at The Battery Show conference this month. The Battery Show is known for bringing together leading advanced battery and electric vehicle engineers, innovators and thought leaders. The panel will be moderated by Scale AI CEO Julien Billot,Continue reading “Aionics to Take Center Stage at the Battery Show”

Aionics, known for revolutionizing the space of battery research, design and deployment (RD&D) using machine learning and high performance compute (HPC) approaches, has launched a newsletter – The State of Battery Informatics. This monthly newsletter will feature leaders from both industry and academia sharing their views on the adoption of computational methods in the space, asContinue reading “Aionics Launches a Monthly Newsletter – ‘The State of Battery Informatics’”

What do Arnold Schwarzenegger, heavy metal music and climate change technology all have in common? Well, they are just some of the topics covered in episode 3 of the Climate Tech Cocktails podcast featuring Aionics CEO Dr. Austin Sendek. Podcast host Matt Myers invited Dr. Sendek to share Aionics’ journey from startup to a leaderContinue reading “Climate Tech Cocktails Podcast Hosts Aionics CEO Dr Austin Sendek”

Bloomberg Green has highlighted cloud-based battery materials informatics company Aionics as a leading company utilizing Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to reduce emissions in a recent article. Aionics was featured as one of the company’s leading one of five approaches to A.I.’s climate applications, with Bloomberg calling out the company as an example of “accelerating scientific discovery”.Continue reading “Aionics Gets Featured In Bloomberg News As One Of Top 5 Startups Using AI To Fight Climate Change”

When Bloomberg’s Market Magazine needed the scoop on the future of battery development, they turned to the Chief Scientist at Aionics, Inc. for the answers. Venkat Viswanathan was the subject of a Q&A discussion on how robots and machine learning are playing a role in accelerating the process of battery development. The article outlines Viswanathan’sContinue reading “Aionics Chief Scientist Talks Robots, Machine Learning, and Batteries with Bloomberg”