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High-throughput experimental tools for the materials genome initiative

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The materials innovation infrastructure in the materials genome initiative (MGI) consists of three major components: computational tools, experimental tools, and digital data. This article will review experimental tools for high-throughput, high spatial resolution measurements of several materials properties such as elastic modulus, thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, and thermal expansion. Application of these tools on composition-varying samples such as diffusion multiples can be used to quickly and efficiently obtain composition–phase–structure–property relationships for materials property database establishment. They can also be used in conjunction with theoretical modeling to find and explain unusual effects to improve the predictability of models. More micron scale resolution experimental tools are in development. These high-throughput tools will be an essential part of MGI.

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Acknowledgments

This work was mostly supported by National Science Foundation (NSF-DMR 0804833). The author is thankful for his collaborators for their contributions, especially to David Cahill, Melvin Jackson, and Xuan Zheng.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

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Zhao, JC. High-throughput experimental tools for the materials genome initiative. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 1652–1661 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0120-1

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