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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Keywords

artificial intelligence, chemistry, innovation equity, substance creation capability, young researchers

Abstract

AI for Science (hereinafter referred to as AI4S) is driving profound changes in the paradigm of scientific research. Chemistry, as a central discipline for creating new substances and supporting major national strategic needs such as energy, health, dual carbon goals, advanced manufacturing, and ecological governance, is an important application scenario of AI4S. At present, innovation in the discipline of chemistry by young researchers still faces knowledge silos, capability silos, and resource silos: the accumulation of professional knowledge requires years of effort, frontier knowledge is highly differentiated, experimental capabilities are difficult to reuse, and high-end resources are difficult to coordinate, which restricts the release of innovation potential across society and the improvement of the national capability for creating chemical substances. From the perspective of innovation equity, this study analyzes the formation mechanisms of knowledge barriers, capability barriers, and resource barriers in the field of chemistry, proposes practical paths of breaking knowledge silos through knowledge equity, breaking capability silos through innovation equity, and breaking resource silos through entrepreneurial equity, and points out that their underlying support lies in six core chains: data, models, intelligent research machines, research agents, scaled facilities, and ecosystem standards. The study proposes suggestions including laying out a national intelligent substance creation infrastructure network, building an open and shared intelligent research ecosystem alliance, improving the standard system for intelligent chemistry research, and strengthening the full-chain intelligent chemistry talent cultivation system, with a view to providing reference for enhancing China’s chemical substance creation capability, cultivating new quality productive forces, and supporting the construction of a science and technology powerhouse.

First page

1103

Last Page

1114

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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