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He founded the <a href="http://cleanenergy.molecularspace.org/" shape="rect" title="Harvard Clean Energy Project">Harvard Clean Energy Project</a>, the world’s largest distributed computing effort, to search for possible molecules for use in organic solar cells. Neil Savage recently spoke with Aspuru-Guzik about his love of computing and chemistry, as well as the role of open access science in solving big problems.</span></p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p><b>How did you end up mixing chemistry and computing?</b></p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>When I was in junior high school, I represented Mexico in the International Chemistry Olympiad in Norway. That was very important because it made me realize how much I loved science and chemistry. At the same time, I was a computer hacker, which was fun.</p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>So I’ve fulfilled my two goals that I had when I was a kid: hacking computers and learning chemistry. My group works at the interface of chemistry, applied mathematics, computer science, and physics. It is at the interfaces that we find the most interesting and most challenging research questions. We take an idea from one field and apply it to the other and vice versa, or grow new ideas from all these different fields.</p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p><b>Why apply quantum computing to chemistry?</b></p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>Ultimately, all matter obeys the rules of quantum mechanics. If you want to find out, for example, whether a molecule will work for a battery, work for solar cells, or be a useful coating, you need to dig into the quantum mechanical properties of that particular material. Classical types of studies will not begin to even be able to address this question.</p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>The problem is that solving quantum mechanical equations on a regular computer is too hard. If you have a molecule large enough, even if you have the largest supercomputer in the world, you cannot do it.</p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>If you had a device that followed the rules of quantum mechanics for doing computations, you could in principle simulate matter exactly. We’ve been developing programs for quantum computers and using the early quantum simulators that are coming along to perform calculations for small molecules. Quantum computing has been picking up, and it’s not crazy to think that in the next few years, maybe in a decade, we will have quantum computers that perform very nontrivial chemistry calculations. 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We’re talking about literally hundreds of millions of calculations done over tens of thousands of years of computer time through the IBM World Community Grid. The idea is to find new molecules for organic solar cells. These devices promise to be low-cost, useful applications for developing countries where there is no electrical grid. We’ve ranked a list of about 75,000 molecules that could be very good for making solar cells, and we’re working with people around the world to actually start making the first molecules.</p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p>Recently, we designed a molecule for the first organic batteries. It was made in this accelerated process of computational design coupled to experiment. It’s been one of our biggest successes recently.</p> </div> <div class="text-left article-content"> <p><b>The project is open access, so that anybody can see the results of your calculations. 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