Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence Materials Science; Autonomous Materials Design; Computational materials science; High-Entropy Disordered Systems; Materials for Energy Applications; Materials for Aerospace Applications. Prof. Curtarolo multidisciplinary research makes use of state-of-the-art techniques from fields like materials science, chemistry, physics, quantum mechanics, mathematics and computer science.
Selected Grants
DETER: Disrupting Electron Transport to Minimize Thermal Conductivity
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Missouri University of Science and Technology · 2024 - 2027Transition States Algorithms for the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2024 - 2027Hyberbolic Plasmonic High-Entropy Carbo-nitrides
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2023 - 2026SPICES: Spinodal-hardened high-entropy ceramics
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2021 - 2026NRT-HDR: Harnessing AI for Autonomous Material Design
Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025Autonomous materials discovery models and algorithms for the AFLOW framework and database
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2025Deep-Learning/SISSO structural/plasmonic optimization of high-entropy carbonitrides and borides
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2024 - 2025Designing practical metallic glasses through synergic computational and experimental exploration of the processing-structure-properties space
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2025Thermodynamics of polar materials: beyond the CCE methods
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2021 - 2023Targeted search for ultra-hard carbo-nitrides using the AFLOW framework and database
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2021 - 2022The Science of Entropy Stabilized Ultra-High Temperature Materials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2015 - 2021Development of Cloud-Oriented Materials Discovery Services (AFLOW-Cloud)
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2021Materials-similarity metrics for the AFLOW data repository
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2018 - 2021Synergetic Efforts in Automatic Accelerated Materials Design
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2016 - 2021Automated Characterization of Chemical Bonding in Inorganic Crystals
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2018 - 2019Disorder as the discovery enabler for transition-metal mixed-anion materials
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2017 - 2019High-throughput Prediction of High-pressure Materials Properties for the AFLOWLIB Database
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2016 - 2019Topological decompositions and spectral sampling algorithms for element substitution in critical technologies
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2013 - 2019DMREF: GOALI: Collaborative Research: High-Throughput Simulations and Experiments to Develop Metallic Glasses
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2018Reciprocating materials design with the AFLOWLIB.org repository
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2014 - 2018Mineralogy Genome Project: extending the AFLOWLIB.org repository to geophysical and environmental materials
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2015 - 2017Materials Project for Functional Electronic Materials Design
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · 2013 - 2017Integration of the experimental superconductor database with AFLOWLIB
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Maryland · 2016 - 2017Expanding AFLOW Visualization using Jmol V2
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2016 - 2017Enhancing AFLOW Visualization Using Jmol
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2015 - 2016Materials Informatics: Expansion of the Aflowlib Database of Electronic Properties of Materials and the Development of Novel Materials Fingerprints for Efficient Database Mining and QSPR Modeling
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2016PECASE: Fundamental Thermodynamic Problems at the Nanoscale, order-disorder transitions in precipitates and alloyed nano-clusters
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2009 - 2015Computer Aided Materials Design Of Superconductors by High-Throughput Thermodynamics
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2010 - 2015Material Genome: Duke-NIST Initiative
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Standards and Technology · 2012 - 2014CAREER: Genetic Approaches to Quantum Mechanics Predictions of Materials Structures
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2013Computational Equipment for the "Materials Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness" at Duke University
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2013High-throughput Thermodynamic Search of Novel Phonon-mediated Covalent Metal Superconductors
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2010 - 2011Enabling Strategic Collaborations between the Naval Research Laboratory and Duke University in the Field of Titanium Alloys - Phase II
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2007 - 2011High-Throughput Combinatorial Materials Characterization of Oxidation Resistant Titanium Alloys and Novel Boride Superconductors
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2007 - 2011External Relationships
- ACTA MATERIALIA (journal of "The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society" (TMS))
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