Materials informatics

Materials informatics is a field of study that applies the principles of informaticsto materials scienceand engineering to better understand the use, development, and discovery of materials. This is an emerging field, with a goal to achieve high-speed and robust acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of diverse materials data.

This field of endeavor is not limited to some traditional understandings of the relationship between materials and information. Some more narrow interpretations include combinatorial chemistry, Process Modeling, materials property databases, and product life cycle management. Materials informatics is at the convergence of these concepts, but also transcends them and has the potential to achieve greater insights and deeper understanding by applying lessons learned from data gathered on one type of material to others. By gathering appropriate metadata, the value of each individual data point can be greatly expanded.

References

• Chapter 5: The Importance of Data [1]in Going to Extremes: Meeting the Emerging Demand for Durable Polymer Matrix Composites [2]

See also

Structural bioinformatics
Data mining

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