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Throughout history, scientists and engineers have relied on the slow and serendipitous trial-
and-error process for discovering and developing new materials. In contrast, an emerging …

The pace at which major technological changes take place is often dictated by the rate at
which new materials are discovered, and the timely arrival of new materials has always …

Combinatorial methods are high-efficiency methods to create large composition “libraries” of
materials, for example, continuous composition variations, and test those compositions …

Computational materials science and engineering has emerged as an interdisciplinary
subfield spanning materials science and engineering, condensed matter physics, chemistry …

The role of computers in scientific research has notably increased over the last several
decades. This has been driven by the increasing computational power of these machines as …

Combinatorial materials science offers an exciting experimental strategy for rapidly
surveying a wide array of materials chemistries and process variables coupled to the …

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 …

Rational materials design based on prior knowledge is attractive because it promises to
avoid time-consuming synthesis and testing of numerous materials candidates. However …

Combinatorial synthesis of solid-state materials comprises the use of automation or
parallelization to systematically vary synthesis parameters. This approach to materials …