(Invited) Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer the Future of Clean Energy Technologies through Computationally-Led and Data-Driven Approaches

Monday, 14 October 2019: 13:30
Room 216 (The Hilton Atlanta)
J. Schlueter (National Science Foundation)
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is a multi-agency partnership that seeks to accelerate the pace of materials development across the Materials Development Continuum. Through use of a computationally-led and data-driven approach, MGI promotes the rapid discovery and progression to deployment of advanced materials that will ensure sustained American leadership in sectors including clean energy. The goals of the MGI include 1) leading a culture shift in materials research through use of an iterative feedback-loop approach, 2) integrating experiment, computation, and theory throughout the materials research community, 3) making digital data accessible and useful to the larger community, and 4) creating a world-class materials science and engineering workforce. The Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) partners with a number of other federal agencies to promote these objectives. DMREF currently funds about one hundred projects that cover the full spectrum of materials research, including a number that focus on energy conversion technologies. This talk will provide an overview of the DMREF program and provide specific examples of ways that DMREF teams are benefitting from collaboration with MGI-related efforts at other federal agencies. Interactions with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Materials Network (EMN) will be highlighted. Future priorities and funding opportunities for the DMREF program will be discussed.