Role of structure prediction in materials discovery and design

Materials informatics owes much to bioinformatics and the Materials Genome Initiative has been inspired by the Human Genome Project. But there is more to bioinformatics than genomes, and the same is true for materials informatics. Here we describe the rapidly expanding role of searching for structur...

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Hauptverfasser: Needs, Richard, Pickard, Christopher
Weitere Verfasser: Chemistry
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: American Institute of Physics 2019
Online-Zugang:https://demo7.dspace.org/handle/123456789/455
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Zusammenfassung:Materials informatics owes much to bioinformatics and the Materials Genome Initiative has been inspired by the Human Genome Project. But there is more to bioinformatics than genomes, and the same is true for materials informatics. Here we describe the rapidly expanding role of searching for structures of materials using first-principles electronic-structure methods. Structure searching has played an important part in unraveling structures of dense hydrogen and in identifying the record-high-temperature superconducting component in hydrogen sulfide at high pressures. We suggest that first-principles structure searching has already demonstrated its ability to determine structures of a wide range of materials and that it will play a central and increasing part in materials discovery and design.