We evaluate the performance of four machine learning methods for modeling and predicting FCC solute diffusion barriers. More than 200 FCC solute diffusion barriers from previous density functional theory (DFT) calculations served as our dataset to train four machine learning methods: linear regression (LR), decision tree (DT), Gaussian kernel ridge regression (GKRR), and artificial neural […]

In this review, we discuss current and potential future applications for materials informatics in industry. We include in this discussion not only the traditional materials and chemical industries, but also other manufacturing-intensive sectors, which broadens the relevance of materials informatics to a large proportion of the economy. We describe several high-level use cases, drawing upon […]

The optimization of composition and processing to obtain materials that exhibit desirable characteristics has historically relied on a combination of scientist intuition, trial and error, and luck. We propose a methodology that can accelerate this process by fitting data-driven models to experimental data as it is collected to suggest which experiment should be performed next. […]

A machine-learning model has been trained to discover Heusler compounds, which are intermetallics exhibiting diverse physical properties attractive for applications in thermoelectric and spintronic materials. Improving these properties requires knowledge of crystal structures, which occur in three subtle variations (Heusler, inverse Heusler, and CsCl-type structures) that are difficult, and at times impossible, to distinguish by […]

Building on these efforts, new tools are being developed to improve data curation, such as the Materials Data Curation System,70 Materials Commons,71 and the Citrine platform.55 Chance and Paul72 outline how to connect the wide variety of data sets and tools using a semantic web infrastructure. Kalidindi, S. R., Brough, D. B., Li, S., Cecen, A., […]

Methods used in informatics require input data that are in a machine-readable, structured format. Materials data, in particular, can be exceedingly complex, so defining data formats to store any and all materials-related information is a daunting task. In this article, we discuss a hierarchical data structure used for storing materials data called the physical information […]

In the current implementation, SS-AutoPhase (semi-supervised AutoPhase) was used to phase map 278 diffractograms from a FeGaPd “open-data” combinatorial thin-film library.[Citrine Informatics, Fe-Ga-Pd, Citrination, http://citrination.com] Bunn, J. K., Hu, J., & Hattrick-Simpers, J. R. (2016). Semi-Supervised Approach to Phase Identification from Combinatorial Sample Diffraction Patterns. JOM, 68(8), 2116-2125.

Manual attribution of crystallographic phases from high-throughput x-ray diffraction studies is an arduous task, and represents a rate-limiting step in high-throughput exploration of new materials. Here, we demonstrate a semi-supervised machine learning technique, SS-AutoPhase, which uses a two-step approach to identify automatically phases from diffraction data. First, clustering analysis is used to select a representative […]

To this end, a variety of materials-related databases and data repositories have been established, for example, the Materials Project,4 the Open Quantum Materials Database (OQMD),5 the NIST Materials Data Repository,6,7 NREL MatDB,8 NIMS MatNavi,9 Automatic-FLOW for Materials Discovery,10 Novel Materials Discovery (NoMaD) repository,11 Computational Materials Data Network,12 Citrine Informatics’ Citrination platform,13 and AiiDA.1 Blaiszik, B., Chard, […]

With increasingly strict data management requirements from funding agencies and institutions, expanding focus on the challenges of research replicability, and growing data sizes and heterogeneity, new data needs are emerging in the materials community. The materials data facility (MDF) operates two cloud-hosted services, data publication and data discovery, with features to promote open data sharing, […]