Organic materials database: An open-access online database for data mining

PLoS One. 2017 Feb 9;12(2):e0171501. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171501. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

We present an organic materials database (OMDB) hosting thousands of Kohn-Sham electronic band structures, which is freely accessible online at http://omdb.diracmaterials.org. The OMDB focus lies on electronic structure, density of states and other properties for purely organic and organometallic compounds that are known to date. The electronic band structures are calculated using density functional theory for the crystal structures contained in the Crystallography Open Database. The OMDB web interface allows users to retrieve materials with specified target properties using non-trivial queries about their electronic structure. We illustrate the use of the OMDB and how it can become an organic part of search and prediction of novel functional materials via data mining techniques. As a specific example, we provide data mining results for metals and semiconductors, which are known to be rare in the class of organic materials.

MeSH terms

  • Data Mining
  • Databases, Chemical*
  • Metals / chemistry
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemistry*
  • Organometallic Compounds / classification
  • Semiconductors
  • Software

Substances

  • Metals
  • Organometallic Compounds

Grants and funding

This work is supported by the Swedish Research Council, Grant No. 638-2013-9243, http://www.vr.se/; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, https://www.wallenberg.com/kaw/; European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP/2207-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. DM-321031, https://erc.europa.eu/; Villum Foundation through the Villum Center for Dirac Materials; Dr. Max Rössler; Walter Haefner Foundation; and ETH Zurich Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.