Open Materials Challenge: Find a Solid-State Battery Electrolyte, Get It Verified
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TL;DR
The Open Materials Challenge Season 1 asks for a solid-state battery electrolyte. You submit a crystal structure; the verifier relaxes it and scores it.
Scoring
| Axis | Weight | Question |
|---|---|---|
| Oxidation stability | 40 | Does it survive on the cathode side? |
| Lithium metal stability | 35 | Does it survive against lithium metal? |
| Novelty of use | 25 | Is this composition new for this purpose? |
Novelty is judged for the application. A known compound used as an electrolyte for the first time can score.
Gates, not gradients
Some properties are pass or fail. A structure with no percolating lithium path is not an electrolyte, so lithium mobility is an entry requirement rather than a ranked axis. The other gates: at most 60 atoms, at most 0.10 eV/atom above the convex hull, a band gap of at least 1.0 eV, and lithium must be present. A rejected entry is shown as rejected, not left looking like a queue.
Reproducibility
Relaxation is not bit-reproducible, so the pipeline keeps the best result seen for a submission instead of overwriting it with a noisier rerun.
Rules and limits: github.com/final-bench/open-materials-challenge
These are computational predictions, not experimental measurements. A high score is a hypothesis worth synthesising and testing.