Researchers develop advanced software to speed up discovery of new polymers

A program to advance the discovery of new polymers has been developed by a team of interdisciplinary researchers across King's Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences. The software, called PySoftK, uses AI to identify new polymer materials, which could be used across a wide range of applications including in medical technology, pharmaceuticals, energy storage and more. The software is described in a paper available on the chemRxiv pre-print server, and PySoftK is available on GitHub.