It has now been about seven weeks since the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was announced by the Obama Administration. Not too much public activity appears to have happened over these seven weeks (the University Materials Council, not surprisingly, endorsed the MGI in a July 27, 2011 letter). We noted the MGI in our June 25, 2011 blog, and will attempt to follow MGI developments particularly as applied to nanotech and cleantech. The Obama administration is apparently seeking $100M for FY 2012 funding and will begin "roadmap" work to develop the ideas more.
The MGI is summarized in an 18 page "white paper," and relates to …