Reaching critical MASS: Crowdsourcing designs for the next generation of materials acceleration platforms

Over the past decades, continual advancement of computational power has led to the prevalence of automation across science, in-dustry, and society, whereby digital solutions were developed algo-rithmically to exploit technical knowledge of a problem. However, we are currently entering a critical period of computational innova-tion, particularly in materials science. Non-intuitive materials accel-eration for societal solutions (MASS) can now potentially be uncov-ered by computational machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other self-driving methods for materials discovery. Herein, we invite the ideas for the next generation of materials acceleration platforms (MAPs). Help us reach critical mass of ideas and start a new materials reaction.