Nobel Laureate Yaghi Leaves US for Tsinghua to Focus on AI Material Design
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-07-07
According to pstAsiatech, Nobel Laureate and materials scientist Omar Yaghi has left the US to join Tsinghua University in China. The 61-year-old scientist will lead a team researching how to revolutionize the design and synthesis of new materials using AI.
Tsinghua stated that this work is expected to shorten the R&D cycle for new materials by "several orders of magnitude."
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