• one example of an application based project is the development of new electrochemical catalysts for ammonia fertilizer production, which is very energy-intensive but has helped feed the world's growing population.
• the overuse of ammonia fertilizers in farming has led to ocean "dead zones" and its production is very carbon-intensive. The knowledge and techniques used to create ammonia have also been used to create explosives during wartime.
• The OpenCatalyst project hopes to use machine learning for atomic simulations in a way that has positive societal impacts by training and testing approaches on datasets like OC20, which were designed to address chemical reactions related to climate change.