We are excited to announce our latest client: the Laboratory for Soft Materials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The group of Alfredo Alexander-Katz will use Atinary’s platform in applications relevant to nano-lithography, MEMS, microchips, and microelectronics.

Self-assembly is a process where molecules and nanoparticles self-organize into an ordered system due to local interactions. It provides an efficient and cost-effective way to fabricate complex nano-structures with long range order. Molecules that arrange themselves into predictable patterns on silicon chips could lead to self-assembling computer chips and microprocessors at a fraction of the price and 10x the speed of fabrication.

MIT’s Laboratory for Soft Materials uses a combination of theory, computer simulations, and experimental studies. The research of this highly interdisciplinary group lies at the interface of materials, biology, physics, chemistry and medicine. With Atinary’s AI no-code platform, the Self-Driving Labs platform (SDLabs), the research group will optimize and accelerate the self-assembly of complex morphologies in block copolymer thin films for next-generation assembly lines of 3D nano-structured materials, such as microprocessor back-ends.