From MGI to Material Digital Research

SU Hang *

 Material Digital R&D Center, China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group, Beijing, 100081, China

ABSTRACT: As the manufacturing industry in China has forwarded into the "Undeveloped zone", more and more new technical requirements are put forward for materials. Current research mode needs to be changed from imitation to original innovation. Material computing and big data are the two cornerstones supporting this transformation. For Chinese material researchers, besides "double halving" of R&D time and cost, MGI is more important and substantive significant to help us deeply understand the mechanism of material innovation research, and form independent iteration research ability, and make material research from “trial and error” mode transfer to original design. This paper analyzes the significance of material computing, material App, material big data, material cloud testing, material blockchain and other technologies on the original innovation research of materials, and puts forward the suggestion of forming a decentralized material Internet (INTERMAT), by establishing the material data association and sharing protocol, to serve for the whole industry chain and the whole life cycle research and application of materials.

Keywords: MGI; cloud computing; material big data; blockchain; InterMat.