17 Sep The Materials Project

[vc_text_separator title='' title_align='separator_align_left' border='no' border_color='' background_color='' text_color=''] I enjoyed Dr. Kristin Persson's talk on The Materials Project: Accelerated Materials Design in the Information Age at Psi-k 2015 Conference. As she said: "The Materials Project - part of the broader Materials Genome Initiative - is an effort to compute the properties of all known inorganic materials and beyond, and offer that data to the community together with online analysis and design algorithms. The current release contains data derived from density functional theory calculations for over 60,000 materials, each with searchable associated properties such as relaxed structure, electronic state, energy storage capability, aqueous and solid stability, and more."   I knew about the Materials Project back in 2012. During my Ph.D. study I had to spend several weeks to calculate and estimate the stable phase diagrams of complex oxides such as InGaZnO4 by writing my own code with MATLAB but thanks to the Materials Project nowadays one can do it in a very short time. This already shows why I am a big fan of the Materials Project. Dr. Kristin Persson and Prof. Gerbrand Ceder have put tremendous effort into this project. Also, I think the primary engines powering the Materials Project are made possible by Dr. Shyue Ping Ong (Pymatgen, Custodian) and Dr. Anubhav...