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Artificial intelligence assists the synthesis of all-natural plastic substitutes

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Robotics and machine learning are combined to predict and prepare a variety of nanocomposite materials with properties mimicking those of various types of plastics, starting from natural building blocks.

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Fig. 1: Methodologies for the development of new composite materials.

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