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The speaker says it is generally not known whether a crystal can never be synthesized.

Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 🔬 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026

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“this is a particularly bad problem in material science because people usually publish crystals they could synthesize but they usually don't publish if they fail to synthesize a crystal sometimes they might and also like we never know really if a crystal is not synthesizable ever right”
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