Must-see materials information list

Must-see materials information list

A starter directory of widely used, high-quality materials-science communities, databases, labs, conferences, workshops, mailing lists, and training resources.

Materials Data And Infrastructure

Materials Project - **Type:** Database / community infrastructure - **URL:** https://materialsproject.org - **Description:** Widely used open materials database for computed crystal structures, thermodynamic stability, electronic properties, and related materials data. - **Tags:** database, DFT, structures, phase stability, materials informatics

NOMAD - **Type:** Repository / data infrastructure - **URL:** https://nomad-lab.eu - **Description:** Open platform for sharing, searching, and analyzing computational materials-science data. - **Tags:** repository, FAIR data, computational materials, workflows

Materials Cloud - **Type:** Platform / repository - **URL:** https://www.materialscloud.org - **Description:** Open platform for sharing materials-science data, workflows, tools, and reproducibility resources. - **Tags:** repository, workflows, reproducibility, data

AFLOW - **Type:** Database / computational infrastructure - **URL:** https://aflow.org - **Description:** High-throughput computational materials database and tools ecosystem. - **Tags:** database, high-throughput, DFT, materials discovery

OQMD - **Type:** Database - **URL:** https://oqmd.org - **Description:** Open Quantum Materials Database for DFT-calculated thermodynamic and structural data. - **Tags:** database, DFT, thermodynamics, phase stability

Community Organizations

Materials Research Society - **Type:** Professional society - **URL:** https://www.mrs.org - **Description:** Major international society for interdisciplinary materials research, conferences, awards, and community activities. - **Tags:** society, conference, materials research, networking

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society - **Type:** Professional society - **URL:** https://www.tms.org - **Description:** Professional organization for minerals, metals, materials processing, structural materials, and computational materials communities. - **Tags:** society, metallurgy, conferences, materials engineering

American Ceramic Society - **Type:** Professional society - **URL:** https://ceramics.org - **Description:** Professional society for ceramics, glass, composites, and related materials research and engineering. - **Tags:** society, ceramics, glass, composites

ASM International - **Type:** Professional society - **URL:** https://www.asminternational.org - **Description:** Materials information society focused on metals, materials engineering, heat treatment, failure analysis, and education. - **Tags:** society, metals, engineering, education

Conferences And Meetings

MRS Spring Meeting - **Type:** Conference - **URL:** https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events - **Description:** Major interdisciplinary materials research conference with broad coverage across computation, synthesis, characterization, and applications. - **Tags:** conference, materials research, interdisciplinary

MRS Fall Meeting - **Type:** Conference - **URL:** https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events - **Description:** Flagship annual materials research meeting with extensive symposia and networking. - **Tags:** conference, materials research, community

TMS Annual Meeting - **Type:** Conference - **URL:** https://www.tms.org - **Description:** Major conference for minerals, metals, materials processing, computational materials, and structural materials communities. - **Tags:** conference, metallurgy, materials engineering

Gordon Research Conferences - **Type:** Conference series - **URL:** https://www.grc.org - **Description:** Focused scientific meetings with strong discussion culture, including many materials-related topics. - **Tags:** conference, focused meeting, discussion, research community

Training And Summer Schools

CECAM Workshops And Schools - **Type:** Workshop / school - **URL:** https://www.cecam.org - **Description:** European center hosting computational science workshops, schools, and tutorials relevant to materials modeling. - **Tags:** workshop, summer school, simulation, computational materials

Psi-k Network - **Type:** Network / training community - **URL:** https://psi-k.net - **Description:** European network for electronic-structure theory, simulation, workshops, schools, and community resources. - **Tags:** electronic structure, DFT, workshops, training

Software Carpentry - **Type:** Training community - **URL:** https://software-carpentry.org - **Description:** General scientific-computing training useful for materials researchers learning reproducible programming and data workflows. - **Tags:** training, Python, reproducibility, computing

Mailing Lists And Community Channels

CCL Mailing List - **Type:** Mailing list - **URL:** https://server.ccl.net/chemistry/resources/messages - **Description:** Long-running computational chemistry mailing list with discussions relevant to molecular modeling and computational materials. - **Tags:** mailing list, computational chemistry, modeling

ASE Community - **Type:** Software community - **URL:** https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase - **Description:** Community around the Atomic Simulation Environment, a widely used Python toolkit for atomistic simulations. - **Tags:** software, atomistic simulation, Python, ASE

pymatgen Community - **Type:** Software community - **URL:** https://pymatgen.org - **Description:** Community and documentation hub for pymatgen, a core Python library for materials analysis and workflows. - **Tags:** software, pymatgen, materials informatics, Python

matminer Community - **Type:** Software community - **URL:** https://hackingmaterials.lbl.gov/matminer - **Description:** Materials data-mining toolkit and documentation for feature generation and machine-learning workflows. - **Tags:** software, machine learning, descriptors, materials informatics

Research Groups And Labs

Materials Virtual Lab - **Type:** Research group - **URL:** https://materialsvirtuallab.org - **Description:** Research group developing open-source computational materials tools, workflows, and data-driven materials methods. - **Tags:** research group, computational materials, pymatgen, workflows

Hacking Materials - **Type:** Research group / software ecosystem - **URL:** https://hackingmaterials.lbl.gov - **Description:** Materials informatics group and software ecosystem including matminer and related data-driven materials tools. - **Tags:** materials informatics, machine learning, software

Materials Theory Group, ETH Zurich - **Type:** Research group - **URL:** https://theossrv1.epfl.ch - **Description:** Computational materials and electronic-structure research community associated with widely used workflow and materials-cloud infrastructure. - **Tags:** computational materials, workflows, electronic structure

Benchmark And ML Communities

Matbench - **Type:** Benchmark - **URL:** https://matbench.materialsproject.org - **Description:** Benchmark suite for materials property prediction using machine learning. - **Tags:** benchmark, machine learning, property prediction

Matbench Discovery - **Type:** Benchmark - **URL:** https://matbench-discovery.materialsproject.org - **Description:** Benchmark for evaluating models on materials discovery and stability prediction tasks. - **Tags:** benchmark, materials discovery, ML potentials, stability

Open Catalyst Project - **Type:** Benchmark / community dataset - **URL:** https://opencatalystproject.org - **Description:** Large-scale datasets and benchmarks for machine learning in catalysis and atomistic modeling. - **Tags:** catalysis, benchmark, ML potential, atomistic simulation