The Collection of Database and Dataset Resources in Materials Science
This collection includes the list of online and offline resources of physical, chemical, mechanical and all other properties of materials.
Helping the students or enthusiasts who seek necessary data to practice machine learning techniques is the main motivation of this collection. It is also expected to assist the researchers in the material informatics field.
In the first three sections below, you can find the list of databases and dataset-sharing platforms accessible publicly and the information of the books/handbooks including materials data.
Additionally, in the last section, there are couple of toy datasets shared by researchers for educational purposes of machine learning techniques in materials science.
Databases in Materials Science
| Database Name | Description |
|---|---|
| NIST Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) | Several databases for different material classes |
| NIST Materials Data Curation System (Part of MGI) | Phase transformation temperatures (e.g. melting, solidus, solvus), lattice parameters, thermal expansion, elastic constants, and diffusion coefficients and compositions profiles |
| NIST Materials Data Repository (Part of MGI) | Data of different materials shared by researchers |
| MDR NIMS Materials Data Repository | Datasets, publications, collections related to all material classes |
| The NIMS Materials Database (MatNavi) | Polymers, inorganic material, metallic material and computational electronic structure |
| The Materials Data Facility (MDF) | Published data of different materials shared by researchers |
| The Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations (JARVIS) | Materials data for classical force-field, density functional theory and machine learning calculations |
| Materials Project | Inorganic compounds, nanoporous materials, elastic tensors, piezoelectric tensors, electrode materials |
| Pauling File and MPDS | Linked phase diagrams + crystal structures + physical properties of all experimentally known inorganic compounds |
| NIST Alloy Data | Thermophysical property data with a focus on unary, binary, and ternary metal systems |
| NIST Structural Ceramics Database (SCD) Database | Published data of structural ceramics |
| Polymer Property Predictor and Database | Flory-Huggins Chi (χ) Database, Glass Transition Temperature Database |
| NIST Standard Reference Data (SRD) | Catalog of several databases |
| NIST Self-Diffusion Data | Self and impurity diffusion coefficients; reference collection of pre-exponential factors and activation energies for Arrhenius type of equations |
| Open Quantum Materials Database (OQMD) | Database of DFT calculated thermodynamic and structural properties of 815,654 materials |
| Automatic Flow for Materials Discovery (AFLOW) | Database of 3,466,057 material compounds with over 679,347,172 calculated properties |
| The Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Laboratory | Input and output files from more than 100 million high-quality calculations |
| NRELMatDB | DFT (GGA+U) relaxed crystal structures, thermochemical properties, i.e., enthalpies of formation of compounds, the stability ranges in terms of chemical potentials, and enthalpies of decomposition reactions quasiparticle energy calculations in the GW electronic structures |
| High Throughput Experimental Materials Database (HTEM DB) | Composition (37093), structure (47213), optical (26577), and electrical (12849) properties of thin films synthesized using combinatorial methods |
| Matmatch | Data of over 31000 materials |
| MatWeb | Data of material properties including metals, ceramics, polymer and other engineering materials |
| Materials Cloud | Data of several materials |
| Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (OpenKIM) | Interatomic potential repository and an online framework for making molecular simulations |
| Materials Commons | Published data of several materials |
| Crystallography Open Database (COD) | Open-access collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organics compounds and minerals, excluding biopolymers |
| Organic Materials Database (OMDB) | Open-access electronic structure database for 3-dimensional organic crystals |
| Polymer Genome | Data of polymer building blocks and platform for property prediction of polymeric materials |
| DoITPoMS Micrograph Library | Data of several materials' micrographs |
| Python for Glass Genomics (PyGGi) | Database of glass properties and platform for property prediction and optimization of glass materials |
| The Engineering Toolbox | Data of material properties for gases, fluids and solids - densities, specific heats, viscosities and more |
| nanoHUB | Published databases of several materials |
| NanoMine | NanoMine Nanocomposites Data Resource |
Datasets in Materials Science
| Resource Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Figshare | Scientific research repository |
| Zenodo | Scientific research repository |
| NIST Materials Resource Registry | Datasets of several materials |
| Mendeley Data | Scientific research repository |
| Materials Cloud | Curated research data sets |
| Materials Commons | Datasets of several materials |
| Ductile Cast Iron Project | Dataset of fatigue, mechanical, corrosion and thermal properties and microstructures of ductile cast iron from over 40 scientific papers |
| nanoHUB | Published datasets of several materials |
Books/Handbooks for Materials Data
- Materials Handbook (Handbook) 15th Edition by George S. Brady (Author), Henry R. Clauser (Author), John A. Vaccari (Author)
- Smithells Metals Reference Book 8th Edition by William F. Gale (Editor), Terry C. Totemeier (Editor)
- Materials Science and Engineering Handbook 3rd Edition by James F. Shackelford (Editor), W. Alexander (Editor)
- MMPDS Handbook
- Handbook of Materials Structures, Properties, Processing and Performance by Lawrence E. Murr (Author)
- ASM Handbook Set (38 Volumes)
- CASTI Metals Handbook Nonferrous Metals 4th Edition by John E. Bringas (Author)
- Materials Handbook A Concise Desktop Reference 2nd Edition by François Cardarelli