General discussion of any topics related to materials science. Ask questions or share new or interesting research, including your own!

LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code with a focus on materials modeling.

The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) consortium aims to make materials databases interoperational by developing a common REST API.

Discuss the Materials Project, its website, data and infrastructure. The Materials Project is funded by the US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences and additional partners.

The Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) is a set of tools and Python
modules for setting up, manipulating, running, visualizing and
analyzing atomistic simulations. The code is freely available under
the GNU LGPL license. ASE provides interfaces to different codes
through Calculators which are used together with the central Atoms
object and the many available algorithms in ASE.

Questions related to the GULP materials science software. GULP is a lattice dynamics package for the fitting of force fields and calculation of materials properties.

Questions related to the OVITO application software and the corresponding Python package. OVITO is a data visualization and analysis solution for particle-based simulations.

Questions related to the matminer, automatminer, matbench and figrecipes materials data mining packages.

Questions related to the Atomate materials science software. Bug reports should go directly to the GitHub Issues page.

Questions related to the pymatgen materials analysis code. Bug reports should go directly to the GitHub Issues page.

Discussion and questions related to the Open Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (OpenKIM) including the online framework at openkim.org, contributing and using OpenKIM content (interatomic potentials, property calculations (tests), data, visualizers), the KIM API, and related topics. OpenKIM is funded by the US National Science Foundation.

hiPhive — High-order force constants for the masses

Enhanced Monte Carlo (or EMC for short) provides a workflow environment, which allows you to control many simulations from one script. EMC consists of a workflow engine – EMC Setup – and a highly optimized MC simulation code. EMC Setup manages a directory structure in which EMC creates input structures using Monte Carlo and energetic principles.

Jobflow is a free, open-source library for writing and executing workflows. Complex workflows can be defined using simple python functions and executed locally or on arbitrary computing resources using the FireWorks workflow manager.

Questions related to the amset electronic transport software. Bug reports should go directly to the GitHub Issues page.

dynasor is a tool for calculating total and partial dynamic structure factors from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The main input consists of a trajectory from a MD simulation, i.e., a file containing snapshots of the particle coordinates, and optionally velocities that correspond to consecutively and equally spaced points in (simulation) time.

KIM REVIEW publishes commentaries on important articles related to classical molecular simulations of hard and soft matter materials and invites community participation through forum discussion.

NOMAD is a free and open platform for research data management in materials science. It lets you publish structured data with rich metadata and provides a unified way to Find, Access, Interoperate with, and Reuse millions of FAIR data. FAIRmat develops and operates NOMAD to build a federated data infrastructure for condensed-matter physics and the chemical physics of solids.

Collection of atomistic modeling tools: cluster expansion, lattice Monte Carlo, lattice dynamics, special quasirandom structures, interface and grain boundary generation, crystallographic utilities, calphad utilities, etc.

Anharmonic-LAttice-DYNamics (ALADYN) is a lattice dynamics package that contains five sets of stand-alone codes. It calculates thermodynamic and thermal transport properties of solid crystalline materials from data on their force and potential energy as a function of positions, using density functional theory or classical molecular dynamics as input data.

icet is a tool for the construction and sampling of alloy cluster expansions.

exciting is an all-electron, full-potential computer package for first-principles calculations, based on (linearized) augmented planewave + local orbital (L)APW+lo methods. This family of basis sets is known as the most precise numerical scheme to solve the Kohn-Sham equations of density-functional theory (DFT), reaching up to micro-Hartree precision.

IFermi is a Python library for the generation, analysis and, visualisation of Fermi surfaces and slices.

Research into robotic science labs (a.k.a. self-driving labs (SDL), autonomous research systems, etc.) involve very expensive equipment. The LEGO-based Low-cost Autonomous Science kit is dedicated to the open-source development of a low-cost, minimum viable product for a robotic science kit.

Questions related to the FireWorks high-throughput computing software and rocketsled, an optimization package for FireWorks. Bug reports should go directly to the GitHub Issues page.

DL_POLY is a general purpose classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation software developed at Daresbury Laboratory.

The MPDS (project Pauling File) is a commercial provider of the curated materials data of 3 types (crystal structures, phase diagrams, and properties), manually extracted from ~400k scientific publications in materials science (1891—now), cross-checked, and interlinked.

Custodian is a simple, robust and flexible just-in-time (JIT) job management framework written in Python. Using custodian, you can create wrappers that perform error checking, job management and error recovery for high-throughput applications.

JARVIS infrastructure provides computational tools and databases to automate materials design using density functional theory, machine learning and classical force-field methods.

Atomly.net is a materials database based on high-throughput first-principles.

SEAMM provides a graphical workflow for molecular and materials simulations.

The Materials Research Data Alliance (MaRDA) is a community-led network focused on connecting and integrating materials research data infrastructure. MaRDA Working Groups (WGs) are intended to accelerate progress in specific ways.

Questions about the Matscholar website, Matscholar API, and mat2vec for data mining the scientific literature of materials with natural language processing (NLP).

pyiron is an integrated development environment (IDE) for computational materials science. It enables scientists to upscale their workflows from rapid prototyping to high performance computing.

mofdscribe is a toolbox for digital reticular chemistry

Qbox is a first-principles molecular dynamics code.

SimStack facilitates the efficient implementation, adoption and execution of complex and extensive simulation workflows and enables fast uptake of modeling techniques for advanced functional and nanomaterials by industry.