Materials science and engineering researchers are harnessing the abilities of robust new technologies to spark advances with the potential to have wide-ranging impacts. By taping into the expanding capabilities of artificial intelligence, or AI, and machine learning, or ML, Fulton Schools Professor Alexandra Navrotsky and Assistant Professor Qi-Jun Hong, along with Sergey Ushakov, an assistant professor in ASU’s School of Molecular Sciences, and a Brown University colleague are gaining extensive knowledge about the precise temperatures at which various materials begin melt. The knowledge can open the door to developing important high performance materials.