Title
Accelerating Materials Development via Automation, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing.
Abstract
Successful materials innovations can transform society. However, materials research often involves long timelines and low success probabilities, dissuading investors who have expectations of shorter times from bench to business. A combination of emergent technologies could accelerate the pace of novel materials development by ten times or more, aligning the timelines of stakeholders (investors and researchers), markets, and the environment, while increasing return on investment. First, tool automation enables rapid experimental testing of candidate materials. Second, high-performance computing concentrates experimental bandwidth on promising compounds by predicting and inferring bulk, interface, and defect-related properties. Third, machine learning connects the former two, where experimental outputs automatically refine theory and help define next experiments. We describe state-of-the-art attempts to realize this vision and identify resource gaps. We posit that over the coming decade, this combination of tools will transform the way we perform materials research, with considerable first-mover advantages at stake.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.joule.2018.05.009
Joule
Keywords
Field
DocType
accelerated materials development,machine learning,artificial intelligence,energy materials
Pace,Return on investment,Experimental testing,Supercomputer,Computer science,Timeline,Automation,Bandwidth (signal processing),Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
8
2542-4351
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
8
Authors
9