New frontiers for the materials genome initiative

de Pablo, Juan J. [Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA] Jackson, Nicholas E. [1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA] Webb, Michael A. [1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA] Chen, Long-Qing [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA] Moore, Joel E. [Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA] Morgan, Dane [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA] Jacobs, Ryan [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA] Pollock, Tresa [Materials Department and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA] Schlom, Darrell G. [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA] Toberer, Eric S. [Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA] Analytis, James [Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA] Dabo, Ismaila [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA] DeLongchamp, Dean M. [Materials Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA] Fiete, Gregory A. [Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA] Grason, Gregory M. [Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA] Hautier, Geoffroy [UCL] Mo, Yifei [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA] Rajan, Krishna [Department of Materials Design and Innovation, University of Buffalo – The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-5030, USA;] Reed, Evan J. [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA] Rodriguez, Efrain [Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA] Stevanovic, Vladan [Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA] Suntivich, Jin [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA] Thornton, Katsuyo [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA] Zhao, Ji-Cheng [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA] et al.[show all]

The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) advanced a new paradigm for materials discovery and design, namely that the pace of new materials deployment could be accelerated through complementary efforts in theory, computation, and experiment. Along with numerous successes, new challenges are inviting researchers to refocus the efforts and approaches that were originally inspired by the MGI. In May 2017, the National Science Foundation sponsored the workshop “Advancing and Accelerating Materials Innovation Through the Synergistic Interaction among Computation, Experiment, and Theory: Opening New Frontiers” to review accomplishments that emerged from investments in science and infrastructure under the MGI, identify scientific opportunities in this new environment, examine how to effectively utilize new materials innovation infrastructure, and discuss challenges in achieving accelerated materials research through the seamless integration of experiment, computation, and theory. This article summarizes key findings from the workshop and provides perspectives that aim to guide the direction of future materials research and its translation into societal impacts.