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The Materials Project calibrated DFT using experimental data for its open-source materials database.
Ekin Dogus Cubuk · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“Uh like, for example, for a long time materials project which was the best opens for”
“open source DFT database use experimental calibration for DFT.”
“So they would actually use experimental data to calibrate DFT.”Play from 37:17Report a misattribution
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