Abstract Scope |
In June 2011, President Obama announced the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), to accelerate the discovery, design, development, and deployment of new materials, at a fraction of the cost, by harnessing the power of data and computational tools in concert with experiment. In the honor of one of the MGI visionaries, here we will survey the early inspiration for the Initiative, successes and lessons learned, focusing on the development of one of the MGI-funded programs: The Materials Project. Today, the Materials Project has evolved inoto a world-leading resource for first-principles materials data. The resource acts as an innovation multiplier for a growing community of data-rich materials research, currently supporting over 300,000 registered users with tens of millions of data records served each day through the API. Through its multi-disciplinarity team, the Materials Project is democratizing the access of accurate, first-principles materials data, a testament to the original Materials Genome Initiative. |