Accelerating the discovery of advanced materials is essential for human welfare and
sustainable, clean energy. In this paper, we introduce the Materials Project (www.
materialsproject. org), a core program of the Materials Genome Initiative that uses high-
throughput computing to uncover the properties of all known inorganic materials. This open
dataset can be accessed through multiple channels for both interactive exploration and data
mining. The Materials Project also seeks to create open-source platforms for developing�…