Led by Dr. Anubhav Jain and located in Berkeley, California (just outside of San Francisco), the Hacking Materials group at LBNL leverages advances in theoretical materials science, supercomputing, and informatics to understand and design new materials for renewable energy applications. We work closely with experimental groups to bring materials from the computer to the laboratory. We currently work mainly on thermoelectric materials, thermal storage materials, and data analytics for solar installations. We also apply natural language processing techniques to extract information from millions of articles in the scientific literature. Our current projects include:

• The Materials Project, an effort to calculate the properties of all known inorganic materials and beyond
• Applying natural language processing techniques to the extraction of knowledge from scientific texts
• Perform computational screening of new materials for electrochemical water purification.
• Developing new methods to calculate electron and thermal transport of materials.
• Image analysis of electroluminescence images of solar modules and cells to detect cracks
• Analyzing time-series and geospatial data sets of solar installations
• Developing open-source frameworks for machine learning composition-structure-property relationships in materials
• Developing codes to analyze the crystal structures of inorganic compounds