{
  "id": 18859355,
  "title": "Kookmin University research team develops AI model to predict properties of mixtures",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/kookmin-university-research-team-develops-ai-model-to-predict-18859355",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-08T04:42:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/education/20261108/kookmin-university-research-team-develops-ai-model-to-predict-properties-of-mixtures"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A Kookmin University research team has created an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of predicting the properties of mixtures by analyzing the ratios of their constituent chemical components. Led by Professor Joung Joon-young from the university's Chemistry Department in the Graduate School, the team comprised Kim Ji-hwan, a graduate student in the integrated master's and doctoral program, and Kim Chan-joong, an undergraduate. Their research, titled \"Encoding composition-dependent intermolecular interactions into learned molecular representations,\" was published in the Chemical Engineering Journal.\n\nThe vast majority of chemical products encountered in daily life consist of multiple substances blended together rather than being single compounds. Illustrative examples include industrial solvents, battery electrolytes, automotive fuels, and cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulations. The properties of these mixtures are not solely determined by the substances they contain but also by their specific proportions. However, the influence of these proportion changes has not been thoroughly studied.",
  "summary": "A Kookmin University research team has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts the properties of mixtures based on the proportions of their chemical components. The university said Thursday that the team was led by Joung Joon-young, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the university’s Graduate School. The team included Kim Ji-hwan, a student in the university’s…",
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}