OUR STORY
The origin of MattVerse can be traced back to 1996 when Prof. Chen GuanHua, one of the founding partners, joined the University of Hong Kong as a faculty member. For a long time, realizing the discovery of new materials on computers has been a dream of scientists in the field of theoretical chemistry. However, solving the quantum mechanical equations of material systems accurately involves many-body interactions, and various necessary numerical approximations have resulted in unsatisfactory accuracy in predicting material properties, especially in electrochemical systems.
In 2003, Prof. Chen GuanHua pioneered the idea of combining AI with quantum chemistry to calculate molecular properties [J. Chem. Phys. 119, 11501 (2003)]. In this groundbreaking research, Professor Chen demonstrated the tremendous power of AI + quantum chemistry by significantly reducing the computational error of heat of formation from 21 kcal/mol using traditional methods to 3 kcal/mol. The significance behind this research achievement is profound, as it suggests that it will be possible to predict the physical and chemical properties of unknown substances solely through computer simulations.
In the subsequent year of 2004, Prof. Chen and his research team made further breakthroughs by publishing a research paper [Chem. Phys. Lett. 390, 186 (2004)], where they successfully employed Artificial Neural Networks to construct the exchange-correlation functional in Density Functional Theory (DFT). From 2017 to 2019, Prof. Chen's research work achieved another milestone. He and his students proposed and developed a rigorous theoretical framework for constructing universal exchange-correlation functionals or potentials using machine learning, pushing the boundaries of computational chemistry to a new level.
In 2020, Prof. Chen took on a significant role entrusted by the Hong Kong Government. He led the establishment of the "Centre of Machine Learning on Energy Materials and Devices" under the InnoHK program, the largest research platform project in Hong Kong, also known as the Hong Kong Quantum AI Lab. As the Director of the center, Professor Chen led a team of distinguished professors from renowned universities and research institutions such as the University of Hong Kong and Caltech, along with over 50 top researchers from around the world, to continue driving the revolution in the field of AI + quantum chemistry. This time, Professor Chen and his team focused their attention on the new energy industry. From the very beginning of the project, they set a long-term commercial goal, aiming to serve various enterprises in the new energy industry chain through the transformation of advanced technologies. From that day, "Prof. Chen's team" became "us".
And thus, the story of MattVerse began to unfold...
Our insights
The industry development is now increasingly focused on the research and development of individual materials, and in the future, it will indeed resemble the semiconductor industry more and more. There will be a growing number of application scenarios, and products will become more complex. The entire design process will also become more complicated. Therefore, there is a greater need for design software similar to EDA platforms and simulation of the manufacturing process to ensure that the manufacturing process becomes more standardized.
In the future, in the field of solid-state lithium batteries, especially for all-solid-state lithium batteries, computational materials science, including quantum mechanics, will play a more significant role. This is because as the technology advances, the batteries are becoming more like a bulk material or more similar to semiconductors. The complex behavior and properties of these advanced materials can be better understood and predicted through computational approaches, enabling more efficient design and optimization of solid-state lithium batteries.”
Our Journey So Far
