Materials Informatics and Combinatorial Materials Science: An Information Portal for Materials Discovery & Design

材料信息学和组合材料科学：材料发现的信息门户

• 批准号: 0231291
• 负责人: Krishna Rajan
• 金额: $ 355万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0231291&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Materials; Informatics; Combinatorial; Science; Information

The International Materials Institute (IMI) for Materials Informatics & Combinatorial Materials Science, which is based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is a joint effort with the University of Maryland and Florida International University (the largest Hispanic Serving Institution in the US). This International Materials Institute (IMI) will pursue two broad goals: i) enabling global access, sharing, and utilization of materials information and knowledge to solve critical problems; and ii) demonstrating and promoting new methods (combinatorial experimentation, informatics, modeling and databases)which dramatically enhance the performance of materials engineering locally and internationally. In addition, the IMI is in a unique position to meaningfully promote diversity in higher education at a national level and to provide a significant opportunity for the IMI to showcase the diversity of the American scientific community at the international level. The Institute will be initiated with a consortium of laboratories that are world leaders in materials science databases and combinatorial methodologies in materials science, representing ten countries spread across Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and the Americas. The IMI will foster and coordinate collaborations on materials issues, which strongly impact on technological progress and economic growth from globalization in fields such as information storage and energy technologies. Illustrative examples include new chemistries for novel magnetic materials and combinatorial process design for functional and structural ceramics. These activities will be carried out as international collaboration platforms that advance the informatics/combinatorial methodology. The research themes will serve as platforms for enhancing the scope of informatics and combinatorial methods as well as serving to address materials related technologies that address pressing global social and economic concerns. To ensure the integration of research and education the IMI will interface the research efforts directly into an accessible information network that will serve as the information technology vehicle for education and information dissemination as part of an international materials network. The IMI will also serve as the hub for this information network, providing ready access through a web-based portal to support the training of a new scientific workforce well versed in the skills of both the materials sciences and the information sciences. A collaboratory infrastructure will be built around the networking capabilities of INTERNET 2 so as to take advantage of the backbone of the next generation of the information highway. To further promote the integration of research and education, an avenue will be provided for the international materials community to effectively use an array of digital libraries, databases, experimental facilities and computational expertise distributed in laboratories around the world. Within this infrastructure, educational vehicles to exploit this rich IT environment will be built to deliver real time access to remote instrumentation, multimedia links between classrooms and laboratories, and simulation-based electronic learning systems which convey the concepts and benefits of combinatorial experimentation and materials informatics. %%%The International Materials Institute (IMI) will introduce this new paradigm of research and education into the materials sciences, addressing important materials needs in the fields of energy, environment and communications. The synergism between informatics and combinatorial experimentation provides the key for accelerated development of materials science from "atoms to applications". The work of the IMI will also involve the development and integration of ultra large-scale databases and digital libraries in conjunction with new technologies permitting highly efficient and rapid experimentation. The Institute will exploit international materials collaborations through the use of information technology in order to rapidly develop and discover solutions to critical materials technologies relevant to global economic concerns. By selectively working on topical materials science themes of global interest and interfacing them into an accessible information network, the IMI will serve as the hub for an internet-based international materials network. An international educational infrastructure that is readily accessible through a web-based portal will be established to support the training of a new scientific workforce well versed in the skills of both the materials sciences and the information sciences. INTERNET 2 will serve as the physical infrastructure on which the IMI will build the International Materials Information Highway.

国际材料研究所（IMI）的材料信息学组合材料科学，这是总部设在伦斯勒理工学院，是一个共同努力，与马里兰州和佛罗里达国际大学（最大的西班牙裔服务机构在美国）的大学。该国际材料研究所（IMI）将追求两大目标：i）实现全球访问，共享和利用材料信息和知识来解决关键问题; ii）展示和推广新方法（组合实验，信息学，建模和数据库），从而大大提高本地和国际材料工程的性能。此外，IMI在有意义地促进国家一级高等教育的多样性方面处于独特的地位，并为IMI在国际一级展示美国科学界的多样性提供了重要机会。该研究所将由一个实验室联盟发起，这些实验室是材料科学数据库和材料科学组合方法的世界领导者，代表了欧洲，日本，中东和美洲的十个国家。IMI将促进和协调在材料问题上的合作，这对信息存储和能源技术等领域的全球化带来的技术进步和经济增长产生了重大影响。 说明性的例子包括新型磁性材料的新化学和功能和结构陶瓷的组合工艺设计。这些活动将作为推进信息学/组合方法的国际合作平台开展。这些研究主题将作为平台，以提高信息学和组合方法的范围，并解决与材料相关的技术，以解决紧迫的全球社会和经济问题。为了确保研究与教育相结合，IMI将把研究工作直接纳入一个可访问的信息网络，该网络将作为教育和信息传播的信息技术工具，作为国际材料网络的一部分。IMI还将作为这一信息网络的枢纽，通过一个基于网络的门户网站提供方便的访问，以支持培训精通材料科学和信息科学技能的新的科学工作人员。将围绕INTERNET 2的联网能力建立一个合作实验室基础设施，以便利用下一代信息高速公路的主干。 为了进一步促进研究与教育的结合，将为国际材料界提供一个有效利用分布在世界各地实验室的一系列数字图书馆、数据库、实验设施和计算专门知识的途径。在这个基础设施，教育车辆，利用这一丰富的IT环境将建成提供真实的时间访问远程仪器，教室和实验室之间的多媒体链接，以及基于模拟的电子学习系统，传达的概念和组合实验和材料信息学的好处。 国际材料研究所（IMI）将把这种新的研究和教育范式引入材料科学，解决能源、环境和通信领域的重要材料需求。信息学与组合实验的协同作用为材料科学从“原子到应用”的加速发展提供了关键。IMI的工作还将涉及超大规模数据库和数字图书馆的开发和整合，以及能够进行高效和快速实验的新技术。该研究所将通过使用信息技术来利用国际材料合作，以迅速开发和发现与全球经济问题相关的关键材料技术的解决方案。 通过选择性地研究全球感兴趣的材料科学主题，并将其连接到一个可访问的信息网络中，IMI将成为基于互联网的国际材料网络的中心。将建立一个国际教育基础设施，通过一个基于网络的门户网站随时可以进入，以支持培训一支精通材料科学和信息科学技能的新的科学队伍。 INTERNET 2将作为IMI建立国际材料信息高速公路的有形基础设施。