Digital Materials Foundry from Royce to speed materials innovation

The Henry Royce Institute (Royce) has launched an open access platform to transform materials discovery, design and deployment.

Embracing artificial intelligence, machine learning and open-access materials data, the Foundry provides a digital infrastructure designed to support innovation across academia, industry and government.

It brings together existing resources – from experimental data libraries to machine learning models and materials-specific language tools.

Need for the Digital Materials Foundry was identified in the National Materials Innovation Strategy. The intention is to encourage collaboration and redefine how new materials are developed, making discovery faster, more predictive and more sustainable.

The Foundry currently offers:

• Experimental Materials Data Library: Curated datasets from peer-reviewed literature, offering critical input for AI-driven research.
• Language Models for Materials: Domain-specific large language models designed to interpret, summarise, and generate knowledge about specific materials-science applications.
• Machine Learning for Property Prediction: State-of-the-art models that predict material properties from chemical compositions.
• Links to Large Computational Materials Databases: Direct access to global resources accelerating simulation and modelling work.

To explore the Digital Materials Foundry and how to engage with the programme follow this link, Digital Materials Foundry - Henry Royce Institute.