I’m very pleased to announce the publication of a new perspective article on the Materials Project and its role in advancing materials discovery! MP has for many years invested in engineering better tools to store, manage, and distribute materials data, in addition to developing scientific software and promoting education and outreach. This paper highlights those efforts which often go under the radar.
If you use data from the Materials Project nextgen website or the API, please cite the new paper:
M. K. Horton, P. Huck, R. X. Yang, J. M. Munro, S. Dwaraknath, A. M. Ganose, R. S. Kingsbury, M. Wen, J. X.
Shen, T. S. Mathis, A. D. Kaplan, K. Berket, J. Riebesell, J. George, A. S. Rosen, E. W. C. Spotte-Smith, M. J.
McDermott, O. A. Cohen, A. Dunn, M. C. Kuner, G.-M. Rignanese, G. Petretto, D. Waroquiers, S. M. Griffin,
J. B. Neaton, D. C. Chrzan, M. Asta, G. Hautier, S. Cholia, G. Ceder, S. P. Ong, A. Jain, and K. A. Persson,
Nature Materials, year 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0. [BibTeX]
For data on the legacy Materials Project site, please cite:
A. Jain, S. P. Ong, G. Hautier, W. Chen, W. D. Richards, S. Dacek, S. Cholia, D. Gunter, D. Skinner, G. Ceder,
and K. A. Persson, APL Materials, volume 1, page 011002, year 2013, DOI: 10.1063/1.4812323. [BibTeX]