Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials

Sarbajit Banerjee; Y. Shirley Meng; Andrew M. Minor; Minghao Zhang; Nestor J. Zaluzec; Maria K.Y. Chan; Gerald Seidler; David W. McComb; Joshua Agar; Partha P. Mukherjee; Brent Melot; Karena Chapman; Beth S. Guiton; Robert F. Klie; Ian D. McCue; Paul M. Voyles; Ian Robertson; Ling Li; Miaofang Chi; Joel F. Destino; Arun Devaraj; Emmanuelle A. Marquis; Carlo U. Segre; Huinan H. Liu; Judith C. Yang; Kasra Momeni; Amit Misra; Niaz Abdolrahim; Julia E. Medvedeva; Wenjun Cai; Alp Sehirlioglu; Melike Dizbay-Onat; Apurva Mehta; Lori Graham-Brady; Benji Maruyama; Krishna Rajan; Jamie H. Warner; Mitra L. Taheri; Sergei V. Kalinin; B. Reeja-Jayan; Udo D. Schwarz; Sindee L. Simon; Craig M. Brown

doi:10.1557/s43577-024-00846-y

Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials

Sarbajit Banerjee, Y. Shirley Meng, Andrew M. Minor, Minghao Zhang, Nestor J. Zaluzec, Maria K.Y. Chan, Gerald Seidler, David W. McComb, Joshua Agar, Partha P. Mukherjee, Brent Melot, Karena Chapman, Beth S. Guiton, Robert F. Klie, Ian D. McCue, Paul M. Voyles, Ian Robertson, Ling Li, Miaofang Chi, Joel F. DestinoArun Devaraj, Emmanuelle A. Marquis, Carlo U. Segre, Huinan H. Liu, Judith C. Yang, Kasra Momeni, Amit Misra, Niaz Abdolrahim, Julia E. Medvedeva, Wenjun Cai, Alp Sehirlioglu, Melike Dizbay-Onat, Apurva Mehta, Lori Graham-Brady, Benji Maruyama, Krishna Rajan, Jamie H. Warner, Mitra L. Taheri, Sergei V. Kalinin, B. Reeja-Jayan, Udo D. Schwarz, Sindee L. Simon, Craig M. Brown

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In alignment with the Materials Genome Initiative and as the product of a workshop sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, we define a vision for materials laboratories of the future in alloys, amorphous materials, and composite materials; chart a roadmap for realizing this vision; identify technical bottlenecks and barriers to access; and propose pathways to equitable and democratic access to integrated toolsets in a manner that addresses urgent societal needs, accelerates technological innovation, and enhances manufacturing competitiveness. Spanning three important materials classes, this article summarizes the areas of alignment and unifying themes, distinctive needs of different materials research communities, key science drivers that cannot be accomplished within the capabilities of current materials laboratories, and open questions that need further community input. Here, we provide a broader context for the workshop, synopsize the salient findings, outline a shared vision for democratizing access and accelerating materials discovery, highlight some case studies across the three different materials classes, and identify significant issues that need further discussion.

Original language	English
Article number	100843
Pages (from-to)	190-207
Number of pages	18
Journal	MRS Bulletin
Volume	50
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00846-y
State	Published - Feb 2025

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Other initiatives have focused more narrowly on specific techniques, such as an NSF-sponsored workshop on electron microscopy organized by Cornell University, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on ultrafast spectroscopy with high-brilliance laser sources, and a workshop funded by the DOE and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. Our 2022 workshop was the first of its kind to bring together alloys, amorphous, and composite materials (e.g., high-entropy materials, glasses, metallic glasses, amorphous oxide semiconductors, nanocomposites, polycrystalline materials, and metal\u2013organic frameworks [MOF]) under one roof to explore their distinctive challenges and opportunities. The workshop also emphasized key workforce development and equitable access themes, which are inextricably interwoven with technical challenges and opportunities in instrumentation and infrastructure. We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation under DMR 2238231.

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Alloy
Amorphous
Artificial intelligence
Autonomous
Composite

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Banerjee, S., Meng, Y. S., Minor, A. M., Zhang, M., Zaluzec, N. J., Chan, M. K. Y., Seidler, G., McComb, D. W., Agar, J., Mukherjee, P. P., Melot, B., Chapman, K., Guiton, B. S., Klie, R. F., McCue, I. D., Voyles, P. M., Robertson, I., Li, L., Chi, M., ... Brown, C. M. (2025). Materials laboratories of the future for alloys, amorphous, and composite materials. MRS Bulletin, 50(2), 190-207. Article 100843. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00846-y

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