| AVS 60th International Symposium and Exhibition | |
| Accelerating Materials Discovery for Global Competitiveness Focus Topic | Wednesday Sessions |
| Session MG+EM+MI+MS-WeM |
| Session: | Materials Discovery and Optimization through Iterative Approaches |
| Presenter: | G. Ceder, MIT |
| Correspondent: | Click to Email |
Novel materials design has become a critical capability to address several urgent societal problems. The need for novel materials is the technological Achilles Heel of our strategy to address the energy and climate problem facing the world, and over-reliance on critical elements has inspired large efforts to develop accelerated materials design strategies. The Materials Genome Project, originally started at MIT (www.materialsproject.com), has as its objective to use high-throughput first principles computations on an unparalleled scale to provide basic materials property data on all known and many potential new inorganic compounds, thereby facilitating the search for new materials.
I will show successful examples of high-throughput calculations in the field of lithium batterier, and show several new materials that have been discovered. I will discuss the public release version of the Materials Genome project which is making large quantities of computed data freely available to the materials community. The Materials Project is rapidly growing as a large collaborative environment for computed materials data.