Materials Genome Initiative

About the Materials Genome Initiative

The Materials Genome Initiative is a federal multi-agency initiative for discovering, manufacturing, and deploying advanced materials twice as fast and at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional methods. The initiative creates policy, resources, and infrastructure to support U.S. institutions in the adoption of methods for accelerating materials development.

Accelerating Material R&D for Sustainable Semiconductor Materials

On October 2nd, 2024, th U.S. Department of Commerce issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to announce an open competition demonstrating how AI can assist in developing new sustainable semiconductor materials and processes that meet industry needs and can be designed and adopted within five years.

Autonomous Experimentation for Materials R&D

Today, the Interagency Working Group of the Subcommittee on the MGI released a report summarizing the findings of a June workshop on Accelerated Materials Experimentation Enabled by the Autonomous Materials Innovation Infrastructure (AMII). This landscape analysis is a crucial step in determining next steps for the MGI. You can download the workshop report here .

OSTP Announces Sustainable Materials AI Aspiration-Updated!

On June 13th, the Office of Science and Technology announced the AI Aspirations. This link now includes videos of the day's presentations, which can also be found collected here . This call to action is highly synergistic with the spirit and technical thrusts of the MGI. The MGI community is particularly aligned with the Sustainable Materials Aspiration , calling for new generations of high-performance materials for semiconductors that alleviate concerning environmental and health problems.

The 2021 Materials Genome Initiative Strategic Plan

As the Materials Genome Initiative marks its first decade, the 2021 strategic plan identifies three goals to expand the impact of the initiative over the coming five years:

A schematic of the MGI paradigm

Unify the Materials Innovation Infrastructure (MII), a framework of integrated advanced modeling, computational and experimental tools, and quantitative data
Harness the power of materials data
Educate, train, and connect the materials research and development workforce

Achieving these goals is essential to our country’s competitiveness in the 21st century and will help to ensure that the United States maintains global leadership of emerging materials technologies in critical sectors including health, defense, and energy.

Learn more from this summary of the new MGI Strategic Plan, or get the full document.