National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Technology, Subcommittee on the Materials Genome Initiative "Materials Genome Initiative: Strategic Plan" (Washington, D.C., December 2014).
The results of the case studies indicate that MDM is a powerful approach for use in materials discovery and innovation, and will play an important role in the development of the Materials Genome Initiative and Materials Informatics.
This technique can be used as a fast filter for further analysis by more detailed ab initio-based methods, and is meant to address the higher throughput methods needed in the Materials Genome Initiative for complex material structures.
In the initiative, certain materials with specifically high dependency rates are identified, such as indium, titanium and niobium, where the EU faces an import dependency rate of 100%% (European Commission 2008).
Nanomaterials are defined by the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative as materials that have at least one dimension in the 1- to 100-nm range.
If you would like to develop a CME activity, or are interested in collaborating on CME initiatives, many materials and resources are available to assist you in this process.
It seems likely that many of these initiatives and materials will be of value to colleagues in the United States.
28 These findings have informed regional National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiatives 29 materials designed to educate the public about cancer symptoms.
More recently formed are the new Duke Robotics Group that draws together faculty from engineering, computer science and surgery, and a nascent Materials Initiative aimed at developing new and improved materials to create better therapeutics, improve energy storage, speed computation and detect environmental hazards.
The resource nexus is distinct from the prevailing discussion of critical materials done by the European Union's (EU) Raw Materials Initiative or the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), both of whom identify priority materials of concern following more narrow criteria of availability and access.
