Material Genome Engineering for Advanced Materials Industry

Advanced materials, serving as the core material foundation underpinning economic transformation, national defense security, and technological revolution, directly determine national competitiveness through their research and development (R&D) efficiency and engineering capabilities. Materials genome engineering (MGE) has revolutionized the R&D paradigm of advanced materials and profoundly reshaped the global industrial landscape through integrating cutting-edge multidisciplinary technologies. This study analyzes MGE's transformative impacts on the advanced materials industry from the aspects of strengthening engineering application, breaking bottlenecks in industry‒university‒research‒application collaboration, and restructuring industrial chains and market ecosystems. It further explores critical technologies regarding advance materials, such as integrated computational engineering, big data, artificial intelligence agents, digital thread, and digital twin, as well as their development tendencies. Moreover, it presents the functionalities and future directions of core MGE platforms, including high-efficiency computational design platforms, autonomous experimentation platforms, materials databases and data centers, new materials pilot-scale test platforms, and intelligent technology innovation platforms. Facing the future competition landscape of the global new materials industry, the study proposes the development strategies of industrial MGE toward 2030 and 2045. It also proposes development suggestions from multiple dimensions, including emphasizing top-level design, advancing the entire industrial chain of advanced materials to accelerate innovation projects, developing critical technologies and supporting platforms, promoting the standardization of materials data, and strengthening talent cultivation and international cooperation. These efforts aim to enhance the core competitiveness of the advanced materials industry.