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Data Infrastructure Elements in Support of Accelerated Materials Innovation: ELA, PyMKS, and MATIN

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Materials data management, analytics, and e-collaborations have been identified as three of the main technological gaps currently hindering the realization of the accelerated development and deployment of advanced materials targeted by the federal materials genome initiative. In this paper, we present our ongoing efforts aimed at addressing these critical gaps through the customized design and build of suitable data infrastructure elements. Specifically, our solutions include: (1) ELA—an experimental and laboratory automation software platform that systematically tracks interrelationships between the heterogeneous experimental datasets (i.e., provenance) acquired from diverse sample preparation and materials characterization equipment in a single consistent metadata database, (2) PyMKS—the first Python-based open-source materials data analytics framework that can be used to create high-fidelity, reduced-order (i.e., low computational cost), process–structure–property linkages for a broad range of material systems with a rich hierarchy of internal structures spanning multiple length scales, and (3) MATIN—a HUBzero-based software platform aimed at nucleating an emergent e-science community at the intersection of materials science, manufacturing, and computer science, and facilitating highly productive digital collaborations among geographically and organizationally distributed materials innovation stakeholders. This paper provides a timely report of lessons learned from these interrelated efforts.

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The authors acknowledge support for this work from NIST 70NANB18H039 (Program Manager: Dr. James Warren). MATIN platform was developed with support from GT’s IMAT and Office of Executive Vice-President for Research.

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  1. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Surya R. Kalidindi, Ali Khosravani, Berkay Yucel & Aleksandr L. Blekh

  2. School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Surya R. Kalidindi & Apaar Shanker

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Kalidindi, S.R., Khosravani, A., Yucel, B. et al. Data Infrastructure Elements in Support of Accelerated Materials Innovation: ELA, PyMKS, and MATIN. Integr Mater Manuf Innov 8, 441–454 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40192-019-00156-1

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