TY - JOUR AU - Matthew K Horton AU - Patrick Huck AU - Ruo Xi Yang AU - Jason M Munro AU - Shyam Dwaraknath AU - Alex M Ganose AU - Ryan Kingsbury AU - Mingjian Wen AU - Jimmy X Shen AU - Tyler S Mathis AU - Aaron D Kaplan AU - Karlo Berket AU - Janosh Riebesell AU - Janine George AU - Andrew S Rosen AU - Evan W. C Spotte-Smith AU - Matthew J McDermott AU - Orion A Cohen AU - Alex Dunn AU - Matthew C Kuner AU - Gian-Marco Rignanese AU - Guido Petretto AU - David Waroquiers AU - Sinead M Griffin AU - Jeffrey B Neaton AU - Daryl C Chrzan AU - Mark D Asta AU - Geoffroy Hautier AU - Shreyas Cholia AU - Gerbrand Ceder AU - Shyue Ping Ong AU - Anubhav Jain AU - Kristin A Persson AB -

The Materials Project was launched formally in 2011 to drive materials discovery forwards through high-throughput computation and open data. More than a decade later, the Materials Project has become an indispensable tool used by more than 600,000 materials researchers around the world. This Perspective describes how the Materials Project, as a data platform and a software ecosystem, has helped to shape research in data-driven materials science. We cover how sustainable software and computational methods have accelerated materials design while becoming more open source and collaborative in nature. Next, we present cases where the Materials Project was used to understand and discover functional materials. We then describe our efforts to meet the needs of an expanding user base, through technical infrastructure updates ranging from data architecture and cloud resources to interactive web applications. Finally, we discuss opportunities to better aid the research community, with the vision that more accessible and easy-to-understand materials data will result in democratized materials knowledge and an increasingly collaborative community.

BT - Nature Materials DA - 10/2025 DO - 10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0 IS - 10 N2 -

The Materials Project was launched formally in 2011 to drive materials discovery forwards through high-throughput computation and open data. More than a decade later, the Materials Project has become an indispensable tool used by more than 600,000 materials researchers around the world. This Perspective describes how the Materials Project, as a data platform and a software ecosystem, has helped to shape research in data-driven materials science. We cover how sustainable software and computational methods have accelerated materials design while becoming more open source and collaborative in nature. Next, we present cases where the Materials Project was used to understand and discover functional materials. We then describe our efforts to meet the needs of an expanding user base, through technical infrastructure updates ranging from data architecture and cloud resources to interactive web applications. Finally, we discuss opportunities to better aid the research community, with the vision that more accessible and easy-to-understand materials data will result in democratized materials knowledge and an increasingly collaborative community.

PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC PY - 2025 SP - 1522 EP - 1532 T2 - Nature Materials TI - Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0 VL - 24 SN - 1476-1122, 1476-4660 ER -