Informatics for Materials Science and Engineering: Data-Driven Discovery for

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Materials informatics, a "hot topic" area in materials science, aims to combine traditionally bio-led informatics with computational methodologies, supporting more efficient research by identifying strategies for time- and cost-effective analysis.



The discovery and maturation of new materials have been outpaced by the thicket of data created by new combinatorial and high throughput analytical techniques. The elaboration of this "quantitative avalanche"--and the resulting complex, multi-factor analyses required to understand it--means that interest, investment and research are revisiting informatics approaches as a solution.



The work, from Krishna Rajan, the leading exponent of the informatics approach to materials, seeks to break down the barriers among data management, quality standards, data mining, exchange, storage and analysis as a means of accelerating scientific research in materials science.



This solutions-based reference synthesizes foundational physical, statistical and mathematical content with emerging experimental and real-world applications for interdisciplinary researchers and those new to the field.