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# Materials Genome Initiative

NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.

-  About MGI 
-  MGI Impact Stories 
-  MGI project categories  Expand or Collapse    -  CHiMaD Pages 
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Resonant Critical Dimension Small Angle X-ray Scattering (res-CDSAXS)

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Materials by Design

## the Materials Genome Initiative at NIST

## The 2021 MGI Strategic Plan

The Materials Genome Initiative marks its first decade with a new strategic plan. Read the summary, or get the full report (PDF). 

The missions of the Materials Genome Initiative and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are tightly aligned. NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. MGI addresses precisely these mission elements by providing the means to reduce the cost and development time of materials discovery, optimization, and deployment. Both missions are driven by industrial competitiveness, with the creation of an innovation infrastructure as the means to this end.

Given NIST expertise in the integration, curation, and provisioning of critically evaluated data and models, NIST has assumed a leadership role within the MGI. In order to foster widespread adoption of the MGI paradigm both across and within materials development ecosystems, NIST is establishing essential data exchange protocols and the means to ensure the quality of materials data and models. These efforts will yield the new methods, metrologies, and capabilities necessary for accelerated materials development.

NIST is working with stakeholders in industry, academia, and government to develop the standards, tools and techniques enabling acquisition, representation, and discovery of materials data; interoperability of computer simulations of materials phenomena across multiple length and time scales; and the quality assessment of materials data, models, and simulations.

Internally, NIST is conducting several path-finder projects to enable integration of key aspects of the materials innovation infrastructure, expose challenges in the construction of this infrastructure, and to serve as exemplars for the broader MGI effort. This includes pilot projects to develop superalloys and advanced composites, both new, energy efficient materials for transportation applications. These activities are coordinated by the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory, in partnership with the NIST Information Technology Laboratory, and with broad participation across the institute.

In summary, NIST is establishing (1) the essential materials data and model exchange protocols and the (2) means to ensure the quality of materials data and models, ultimately (3) establishing new methods, metrologies, and capabilities necessary for accelerated materials development. Additionally, though its efforts to (4) integrate these activities, NIST is working to test and disseminate its developed infrastructure and best practices to its stakeholders.

## Projects and Programs

### μMAG: Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group

### Advanced Composites Pilot for the Materials Genome Initiative

### ASM Structural Materials Data Demonstration Project

### Assessment of Uncertainty in CALPHAD Descriptions

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## Awards

### 2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Barry Schneider, Robert Hanisch, Carl Spangler, Walid Keyrouz, Andrew Reid, Timothy Blattner, Derek Juba, Robert Densock, Abdella Battou, Thomas Allison

### 2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Raymond Plante

### Robert Hanisch Honored as Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

### 2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Regina L. Avila, Andrea Medina-Smith, Kimberly A. Tryka, Anita Vanek, Thomas Chung, Christopher Davis, Pradip Pandya, Jon Zhang, Gretchen Greene, Raymond Plante

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## Material Resource Centers

                  - Center for Hierarchical Materials Design
                  - Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
                  - Center for Neutron Research
                  - Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
                  - Mass Spectrometry Data Center

## Online Tools

**Materials Resource Registry**
                  - **Materials Resource Registry**   This system allows for the registration of materials resources, bridging the gap between existing resources and the end users.

**Data Repositories and Lists**
                  - **Repositories**  establish essential data exchange protocols and mechanisms for widespread adoption to ensure quality materials data and models and to foster data sharing and reuse.
                  - **NIST Standard Reference Materials**  Web Site
                  - **NIST Calibrations**  Web Site

**A List of Databases:**
                  - NIST Data Gateway  provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data.
                  - NIST Standard Reference Data  provides a serial of critical evaluated scientific and technical data.
                  - NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database  provides critical evaluated XPS data

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