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Technology: Sharing data in materials science

Two years on from the launch of the US Materials Genome Initiative, five experts highlight how materials scientists still need to work differently.

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Technology: Sharing data in materials science. Nature 503, 463–464 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/503463a

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