Materials science is entering a new era, the era of Materials by Design where new materials are purposefully developed to have a specific functionality rather than empirically discovered and then matched to functionality and applications later. As part of The Center for Next Generation Materials by Design, an NREL EFRC, researchers across the country are developing these materials by integrating high-throughput computation and theory materials in conjunction with high-throughput and detailed experimental synthesis and characterization to greatly accelerate the discovery of useful functional materials.
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