Materials Genome Technology and Its Development Trend

The materials genome initiative (MGI) was launched to reform the traditional modes to develop novel materials, which were expected to shorten the development cycle with simultaneous decreasing of costs. In this paper, the connotations of MGI was discussed in detail, especially from the viewpoint of requirements to aero materials. The development of MGI requires techniques aimed to high throughput computation and experiment, together with large-scale data mining based on material database. To the direction of MGI technique, we emphasize the following four aspects: material information science and database technique, integrated computation, processing simulation of materials and computational simulation of service.