DIADEM: an exploratory Priority Research Programme and Infrastructure linking materials and AI

The discovery of new materials is vital to meeting societal challenges relating to energy, transportation, the energy transition, the digital transition, and health. These materials, however, are growing increasingly complex. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become essential in the effort to surpass this complexity, and to address these urgent issues within a short time frame. The DIADEM PEPR, which is based on these new technologies, is an ambitious acceleration programme for the conception and bringing to market of high-performance materials that are durable as well as made from non-critical and non-toxic raw materials, thereby contributing to the competitiveness of French industries, in addition to the economic development of France. The PEPR's activity will be based on four platforms distributed across French territory, combining in an integrated manner modelling, numerical simulation, AI methodologies, synthesis-screening technologies, and high-throughput characterisation. These platforms represent 40% of the total budget for DIADEM. The synergy created by these enduring platforms will foster a capacity for renewed innovation in materials science.