Mat3ra.com Selected for Three Projects Under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

Exabyte Inc., the developers of Mat3ra.com, is proud to announce its selection under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Inaugural Genesis Mission cohort as part of three Phase I projects — including AlphaFilm, a Mat3ra-led effort to build a first-in-the-nation closed-loop agentic AI capability for semiconductor thin-film materials.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Being selected from among 5,000 submissions from frontier institutions across the United States is a great sign of respect, and it is both a source of pride and an obligation for us to contribute to advancing this effort.

Exabyte Inc., the developers of Mat3ra.com, is proud to announce its selection under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission (DE-FOA-0003612), a national initiative to harness artificial intelligence and the DOE’s world-leading scientific infrastructure to accelerate discovery across materials, energy, and manufacturing. Mat3ra.com will participate in three selected Phase I projects, spanning AI-driven materials processing, quantum materials discovery, and the cybersecurity of scientific AI workflows.

The Genesis Mission Projects.

AlphaFilm: Closed-Loop Agentic AI for Thin-Film Materials — led by Mat3ra.com.

Mat3ra.com is especially excited to lead AlphaFilm, a first-in-the-nation closed-loop agentic AI capability for semiconductor thin-film materials, selected under the Genesis Mission’s challenge area on Reenvisioning Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Productivity (AI-Driven Materials Processing). AlphaFilm unites machine-learned interatomic potentials and agentic AI orchestration on the Mat3ra.com platform with combinatorial thin-film synthesis and automated multimodal microscopy, forming an autonomous experiment–computation loop that aims to cut materials-screening cycles from weeks to hours for ferroelectric wurtzite nitride films — a transformative platform for non-volatile memory, RF filters, neuromorphic computing, and MEMS. The project builds directly on Mat3ra.com’s recent case study with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Connecting Experiment and Theory: Closing the Loop” (available on Mat3ra.com), in which machine learning extracted atomic-scale features from electron microscopy and fed them back into high-throughput simulations to refine subsequent experiments. In AlphaFilm, this closed-loop paradigm is scaled to industrially relevant deposition: the frontier semiconductor deposition capabilities of the effort are led by the National Lab of the Rockies, which contributes world-leading combinatorial sputtering of Al _(1-x)Sc _(x)N libraries with autonomous process feedback, while the University of Tennessee, Knoxville provides automated scanning-probe and multimodal characterization. The project is carried out with support from RTX (Raytheon), targeting the translation of the resulting nucleation and growth capabilities toward pilot-scale industrial production.

High-Throughput, High-Fidelity Many-Body Theory Calculations — led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Mat3ra.com is pleased to join “High-Fidelity AI-Ready Excited-State Materials Datasets and AI Models for Accelerated Discovery,” alongside the University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, and industry collaborator NVIDIA. Selected under the Genesis Mission’s focus area on Functional to Quantum Materials, the project will generate high-throughput, high-fidelity GW and GW-BSE many-body datasets with the exascale-performant BerkeleyGW software and train AI surrogate models for excited-state phenomena in quantum and optoelectronic materials. Mat3ra.com will assist the team with cloud-based high-performance computing, web-based dissemination and collaboration, and the AI-readiness of the data produced.

SPOTTER-AI: Cybersecurity for Scientific AI Workflows — led by Argonne National Laboratory.

Mat3ra.com also joins SPOTTER-AI (“Scientific Provenance-Oriented Threat Tracing and Attribution for Genesis Workflows”), alongside Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Selected under the Genesis Mission’s focus area on Data Provenance and Integrity Verification, SPOTTER-AI is an AI-powered cybersecurity framework that uses detailed provenance and importance-based attribution to detect integrity attacks on scientific AI workflows and trace them to their root cause. Mat3ra.com contributes expertise in data curation and domain-specific ontologies, extending its work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on data standards for electronic materials research and development.

The Impact.

“Being selected from among 5,000 submissions from frontier institutions all across the United States is a great sign of respect, and it is both a pride and an obligation for us to be able to contribute to advancing this effort. It highlights the unique position of Mat3ra as a world leader in enabling impactful AI-driven materials science,” said Timur Bazhirov, CEO of Exabyte Inc. “Our recent work at Mat3ra is focusing on enabling AI-native capabilities for the design and development of real-world materials, including thin films, surfaces, interfaces, defects, and other complex effects that govern their behavior. The three projects we are part of are well aligned with our efforts, and we are excited to support the DOE Genesis Mission and contribute to building scientific superintelligence for materials and energy applications.”

Across all three projects, Mat3ra.com serves as a catalyst for American innovation. As the Department of Energy builds the national infrastructure — the “highways and railways” for AI-driven scientific discovery — from leadership-class computing to the American Science Cloud, Mat3ra.com provides the “last-mile delivery” that puts these capabilities directly into the hands of scientists, enabling them to get to results faster, together, in a collaborative and accessible manner.

About Mat3ra.com.

Mat3ra.com, developed by Exabyte Inc., is a cloud-based research and development platform driving innovation through the strategic integration of cloud high-performance computing and artificial intelligence for materials science. The platform empowers a community of over 40,000 scientists worldwide, allowing them to collaborate and generate the high-quality, ground-truth physical data essential for advancing materials AI across the semiconductor, energy, and defense sectors. Mat3ra.com serves a diverse customer base ranging from Global 2000 companies such as ENEOS and EMD Electronics to leading government R&D institutions, with prior and ongoing work supported by the U.S. Air Force (AFRL and AFWERX), the U.S. Navy (Naval Research Laboratory), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy.

For more information, visit Mat3ra.com.

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