Expanding the Boundaries of Materials Science: Unconventional Collaborations: Unconventional Collaborations
Program Organizers: Sourabh Bhagwan Kadambi, Idaho National Laboratory; Alex Hsain, North Carolina State University; Brady Dowdell, North Carolina State University; Benjamin Anthony, University of Florida
Monday 2:30 PM
February 24, 2020
Room: 4
Location: San Diego Convention Ctr
Session Chair: Benjamin Anthony, North Carolina State University; Brady Dowdell, North Carolina State University
2:30 PM
Creating the Next-Generation Materials Genome Initiative Workforce: David McDowell1; 1Georgia Institute of Technology
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) holds the promise to achieve systemically accelerated discovery, development, and deployment of advanced materials that will address the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. Despite technical progress in advancing the underlying experiment, computation, and data science tools and approaches of the MGI, there remains a strong need to improve the education and training of the existing and future workforce to better integrate these three pillars. In response, TMS administered a study on Creating the Next-Generation MGI Workforce that captured perspectives from multiple experts and aims to advance understanding and provide recommendations to improve the readiness of individuals, groups, and organizations to contribute to the MGI. In addition to providing a detailed vision for the necessary knowledge and skills of the future MGI workforce, seven action plans are provided in the report to promote the culture shift that is needed to speed the implementation of MGI approaches.
3:00 PM Invited
Accelerating Materials Design Through Community, Open Data and Collaboration: Matthew Horton1; Kristin Persson2; 1Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; 2Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California, Berkeley
The Materials Project is the worlds foremost database of inorganic materials, including over a hundred thousand crystal structures and millions of computed properties including thermodynamic information, electronic structure, elastic, dielectric and piezoelectric tensors, phonon band structures, magnetic properties, and more. This computed data and the code used to generate it is shared openly and free of charge for users worldwide, along with many 'apps' to explore the data for different applications. This has allowed a rich multi-faceted collaboration within both academia and industry to accelerate the design of new functional materials. This talk will discuss our latest advances, including ways in which MP has benefited from the larger community and in particular from experimental data, and how it has in turn helped drive experimental inquiry. We will explore the outlook for future collaboration between scientists using both compuational and experimental methods, including a discussion of our new user contribution platform.
3:30 PM
Additive Manufacturing for Novel Thermal Devices: Scott Roberts1; Ben Furst1; Stefano Cappucci1; Takuro Daimaru1; Eric Sunada1; 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Through a partnership of thermal, mechanical, nuclear, and materials engineers we have developed a novel technique for integrating two-phase thermal management systems into spacecraft structures. We increased performance and decreased mass, both by an order of magnitude. The fundamental breakthrough has been the development of an additive manufacturing method to create controlled stochastic porosity alongside non-porous regions within a single build. While the technique was initially developed by the Materials & Manufacturing team for the Thermal Technology group, it has continued to grow in use by exposure to other diverse sets of engineers who have come up with applications such as filters, ice grippers, vibration isolators, compliant mechanisms, remote sensing devices, capillary flow devices, and more.
4:00 PM Break
4:20 PM Panel Discussion - Best practices on effective communication and strategies for making the most out of interdisciplinary research collaborations. Panel members are select speakers from the symposium.
4:50 PM Concluding Comments