FAIR, Aware, and Understood: Language Models within Battery Research and Beyond
Felix Mildner a
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Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2026 Conference (MATSUSFall26)
D7 High Throughput Electrode Synthesis and Manufacturing
Palma, Spain, 2026 October 26th - 30th
Organizers: Dries De Sloovere, Nadia Farag and Chengyin Fu
Invited Speaker, Felix Mildner, presentation 540
Publication date: 22nd July 2026

Automated, high-throughput laboratories now let us assemble and cycle battery cells reproducibly and at scale, reducing the cell-to-cell variability of manual fabrication but opening a growing gap between the amount of data a lab can produce and what researchers can curate, process, and interpret using traditional workflows. Large language models (LLMs) have improved rapidly in recent years and offer a promising way to close this gap; yet their inner workings remain only partially understood, which matters for how far we can trust them in a scientific setting.

Recent work from our group shows that LLMs can have internal structure to how they store scientific information [1] and the way information is presented to them can have a significant impact on their outputs and associated confidence [2]. Building on this, the work I present is organised around three threads reflected in the title: keeping experimental data FAIR, making automated labs and research consortia aware of their own operation, and grounding both in a clearer understanding of the models themselves.

Building on this, the work I present is organised around three threads: ensuring data follows the FAIR principles, making automated labs and research consortia aware of their own operation, and grounding both in a clearer understanding of the models themselves.

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