Find materials data. Publish your own.

Search 935 datasets across experiment, simulation, and ML-ready collections — no account needed. Publishing is free, takes about ten minutes, and gives you a citable DOI.

935
datasets published
1,000 TB+
data hosted and served
60+
ML-ready collections

Two ways in

Publish your data

Free, with a citable DOI at the end — it satisfies most funders’ data-management plans.

Start a submission
  1. Sign in with Globus. Most universities and national labs support institutional login.Create an accountJoin the MDF group

  2. Upload your files. From a laptop, a Globus endpoint, or Google Drive — terabytes included.What makes a good dataset

  3. Get your DOI. Describe the dataset once; revisions publish as new versions, so citations keep resolving.

Find and reuse data

No account required to search, browse, or read a record.

Browse the index
  1. Search in your own words. Keywords or a plain-language description, across every collection at once.

  2. Check it before you download. Metadata, formulas, file listings, and version history on every record page.

  3. Cite what you used. Each DOI is pinned to a version, with citation text ready to copy.

Would you rather do this in a terminal?

mdf publishes, searches, and clones datasets from the command line — and ships an agent skill that drafts your metadata, gated on your approval.

pipx install mdf-cli

Explore the CLI

Load ML-ready data in a few lines of Python

Foundry-ML serves structured, validated datasets directly into your notebook. f.get_dataset(doi) returns arrays that are ready to train on, so there is no cleaning step first.

60+
collections ready to load
5
lines from import to arrays

pip install foundry-ml

foundry_example.py
# Import Foundry-ML
from foundry import Foundry
f = Foundry()
# Load a dataset by DOI
doi = '10.18126/qsdl-qj6x'
ds = f.get_dataset(doi)
# Get data as a dictionary
X, y = ds.get_as_dict()
Materials Data Facility

The Materials Data Facility (MDF) empowers researchers to publish, discover, and access high-quality materials science datasets, accelerating scientific discovery through open data.

This work was performed under NIST financial assistance awards 70NANB14H012 and 70NANB19H005.

Supported by

NISTChiMaDUniversity of ChicagoArgonne National LaboratoryUniversity of Illinois

Cite MDF

Blaiszik, B., et al. "The Materials Data Facility: Data services to advance materials science research." JOM 68, no. 8 (2016): 2045-2052. doi:10.1007/s11837-016-2001-3

Blaiszik, B., et al. "A data ecosystem to support machine learning in materials science." MRS Communications 9, no. 4 (2019): 1125-1133. doi:10.1557/mrc.2019.118

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