AI proposes catalyst a 12-year expert called wrong; it runs 1,000+ hours with little loss
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-09-26
Lila Sciences shared a favorite AI-for-Science story: while working on clean hydrogen catalysts, their AI proposed a composition that a scientist with 12 years studying the exact reaction was sure had to be wrong. That composition became the team's strongest lead, sustaining over 1,000 hours of oxygen evolution with little catalyst loss — a striking case of AI-generated hypotheses breaking past human intuition.
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