Matter, translated.

AI and materials,decoded honestly.

Original writing on materials informatics, AI for materials discovery, and the unglamorous engineering that makes scientific data worth trusting. When fixing a bug lowers a model's score, the lower number gets published.

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by Ibtisam Ahmed Khan· materials engineer working in AI + data

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Materials Project API: common mp-api errors and fixes

Fixes for the errors people hit on the Materials Project API: 403s, API keys, legacy vs new mp-api client, material_ids, and get_dos_by_material_id.

27 Jul 2026

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Materials informatics

Predicting properties from structure, and where the models quietly break.

AI for materials

Graph networks, generative models and the labs racing to design new matter.

Materials data engineering

Turning scattered scientific data into something you can actually model.

Scientific data quality

The data is shakier than the models assume. Auditing is the real work.

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