Interoperability of materials database systems in support of nuclear energy development and potential applications for fuel cell material selection

Materials database interoperability has been of great interest in recent yearsfor information exchange in support of research and development (R&D). In response to data and knowledge sharing needs of the Gen IV InternationalForum (GIF) for global collaboration in nuclear energy R&D, the European Commission JRC Institute for Energy and Transport (JRC-IET) and the OakRidge National Laboratory (ORNL) established a materials database interoperability project that developed techniques for automated materialsdata exchange between systems hosted at the two institutes-MatDB Online at JRC-IET and the Gen IV Materials Handbook at ORNL, respectively. The work toenable automated exchange of data between the two systems leveraged the XML data import and export functionalities of both systems in combinationwith recently developed standards for engineering materials data. The preliminary results of data communication between the two systemsdemonstrated the feasibility and efficiency of materials database interoperability, which constructs an interoperation framework that can beseamlessly integrated into the high-throughput First Principles material databases and thus advance the discovery of novel materials in fuel cell applications.