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Title: Fulfilling the promise of the materials genome initiative with high-throughput experimental methodologies

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Reviews
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4977487· OSTI ID:1352994
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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
  2. Google, Mountain View, CA (United States)
  3. Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  5. Charles Stark Draper Lab., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  6. Bangor Univ., Gwynedd (United Kingdom)
  7. Intermolecular, Inc., San Jose, CA (United States)
  8. Clark Street Assoc., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  9. Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  10. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  11. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  12. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

The Materials Genome Initiative, a national effort to introduce new materials into the market faster and at lower cost, has made significant progress in computational simulation and modeling of materials. To build on this progress, a large amount of experimental data for validating these models, and informing more sophisticated ones, will be required. High-throughput experimentation generates large volumes of experimental data using combinatorial materials synthesis and rapid measurement techniques, making it an ideal experimental complement to bring the Materials Genome Initiative vision to fruition. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art results, opportunities, and challenges in high-throughput experimentation for materials design. As a result, a major conclusion is that an effort to deploy a federated network of high-throughput experimental (synthesis and characterization) tools, which are integrated with a modern materials data infrastructure, is needed.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); NREL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308; SC0004993
OSTI ID:
1352994
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1462600
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5K00-68391
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 4, Issue 1; ISSN 1931-9401
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 196 works
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