Materials Project: a collaboration between MIT and LBNL

Using a website called the Materials Project, it's now possible to explore an ever-growing database of more than 18,000 chemical compounds. The site's tools can quickly predict how two compounds will react with one another, what that composite's molecular structure will be, and how stable it would be at different temperatures and pressures. The project is a direct outgrowth of MIT's Materials Genome Project, initiated in 2006 by Gerbrand Ceder, the Richard P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. The idea, he says, is that the site "would become the Google of material properties," making available data previously scattered in many different places, most of them not even searchable