"Using Wolverton’s previously created Open Quantum Materials Database, Snydacker identified 13 potential new materials. The extensive database allows users to search materials by compositions. It also uses machine-learning that can learn chemistry to predict the possible existence of new compounds that have not yet been synthesized. Snydacker founded Lilac Solutions to develop these materials for ion exchange — materials that can extract lithium faster, at a higher concentration, and with a much smaller carbon footprint."