Links to Large Computational Materials Databases

Overview

Our Digital Materials Foundry focuses on the provision of experimental materials data, as such assets are closer to ‘real-world’ solutions. Moreover, experimental databases are a much scarcer commodity than computational materials datasets. Nonetheless, experimental and computational materials data are highly complementary.

This page catalogues links to popular computational materials database platforms from around the world.

The Materials Project

Harnessing the power of supercomputing and state-of-the-art methods, the Materials Project provides open web-based access to computed information on known and predicted materials as well as powerful analysis tools to inspire and design novel materials.

Database Platform

NOMAD

The NOMAD (Novel Materials Discovery) materials database is a free, open-source data management platform specifically designed for materials science. Its primary goal is to make research data FAIR-Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable-addressing the challenge of heterogeneous and often unfindable data in the field.

Database Platform

Alexandria

The Alexandria Materials Database is an open-access resource containing extensive computational data on materials and molecules, primarily generated using density functional theory (DFT). It is designed to support research in materials science, quantum chemistry, and the development of machine learning models for predicting material properties.

Database Platform

The Computational Materials Repository

The Computational Materials Repository (CMR) is a systematic, open-access database and software infrastructure designed to manage the large and rapidly growing volume of data generated by computational materials science, particularly from electronic-structure simulations and molecular dynamics calculations.

Database Platform

MaterialsCloud

Materials Cloud is an open science platform designed to enable seamless sharing, archival, and dissemination of resources in computational materials science. It serves as a comprehensive ecosystem supporting the entire research life cycle, from learning and simulation to data curation and publication.

Database Platform

AiiDA

The AiiDA materials database is a curated collection of computational materials science data generated and managed using the AiiDA (Automated Interactive Infrastructure and Database for Computational Science) framework.

This database is designed to store not only the results of simulations and calculations, but also their full provenance-meaning every input, output, and intermediate step is tracked and preserved in a directed acyclic graph structure.

Database Platform

Engage with the Digital Materials Foundry

The Digital Materials Foundry is a new programme within the Henry Royce Institute designed to address challenges around AI in Materials Discovery, Characterisation and Application. If you would like to submit work to its libraries of Experimental Materials Data Repositories or Machine Learning for Property Prediction, please get in touch using the link below.

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