Why combinatorial materials science and informatics?

Combinatorial sciences and materials informatics are the enabling tools for significantly enhancing the next generation of materials science problems through:

• Accelerated insertion of materials into engineering systems
• Rapid multiscale design and optimization of materials properties
• Establishment of new structure property correlations among large, heterogeneous and distributed data sets
• Discovery of new chemistries and compounds
• Formulation and / or refinement of new theories for materials behavior
• Identification of critical data and theoretical needs for future problems

What are we combining combinatorially?

Data Driven Materials Science: Information is multivariate, diverse, very large and access / expertise is globally distributed

How do we process discrete data: Informatics?

Interdisciplinary interface between materials science and the information sciences