Materials genome: research progress, challenges and outlook

We are facing a new era with plenty of scientific data, which stimulates the born of materials genome (MG). It tackles huge amount of data to informatics, and finally provides wisdom for the development of novel materials with superior properties. Representative successes in applying MG for variant purposes, including clean energy, gas separation, alloy, catalyst and functional polymer materials etc., have been summarized, and approaches and suggestions for further development of MG are presented in this review. Though there are still alternative challenges in the advancement of MG, it exhibits a powerful paradigm to satisfy the thirsty for advance materials beyond all doubts.