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‘Inverse design’ is a design approach that reverses the traditional design process and enables the designer to discover and create materials that possess a user-defined set of properties. Researchers demonstrate a nascent machine learning-based solution that uses an algorithm to identify any material that exhibits specific properties or characteristics. Termed ‘general inverse design,’ the novel method is not limited to a particular set of elements or crystal structure, but accesses all elements and crystal structures and can design novel compounds different from known materials.