For data, algorithms and trained models developed by the Olivetti group, see The Synthesis Project: A Data-Driven Framework for Materials Synthesis Discovery.
The Olivetti Group focuses on quantifying the impact of and providing strategies for increasing the resource, economic, and environmental effectiveness of materials in the context of rapidly expanding global markets. In particular, we build analytical models to understand how the characteristics of a system drive the design of materials and processes and how the characteristics of a material or process drive the design of systems.
Through collaboration with experimentalists and industrial research partners, our work links information around fundamental materials structure/property relationships with scaled economic and environmental impact.
Assessing the resource impact of recycling and material substitution
The goal of this research is to employ a systems perspective to strengthen decision-makers’ ability to predict the impacts of corporate and governmental policy in the materials substitution and recycling arenas.
Predicting impact of novel materials and processes
Beneficial Use of Non-hazardous Industrial Byproducts in Building Materials
Evaluating the Manufacturing Scalability of Early Stage Clean Energy Technologies