Allied4Future · AI in Raw Materials Lab

Getting more in, and needing less

The two ways Europe reduces a dependency — and the industrial problems where each is decided, across exploration, extraction, processing, recycling and substitution. With a screen that tests whether a candidate material reduces a dependency or merely moves it. Working prototype.

—materials
—elements
—critical
—by-product
—restricted

Screen a material

enter a formula or element list

Every material is scored by its hardest-to-obtain constituent. The governing element is named, so the verdict can always be argued with.

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Challenge Library

worked examples, not real submissions Submit a challenge →

Problems written as specifications, not aspirations — with the record of what has been tried, including what failed. The failures are the part that does not exist anywhere else. The five below are illustrations of the format, written to show what the Library requires. No industrial party has submitted to this prototype.

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checking…

The Library only works if problems arrive as specifications. “We need better magnets” cannot be searched against or tested. “Coercivity of 14 kOe at 180 °C, no dysprosium, existing sintering line, at most 110% of current cost” can. This form asks for the second kind.

Prototype. Submissions are stored with this page and are visible to anyone it is shared with. Do not enter confidential specifications, operating data, or anything you would not put in an email to a competitor.

What the corpus shows

Across every annotated material — not the browsable sample below.

Supply-viability distribution
What constrains materials most often
Property coverage
Excluded from scoring

Read the distribution carefully. The corpus is sampled per element across the critical, strategic and by-product lists, so it contains constrained materials by construction. These proportions describe this sample. They are not a statement about materials in general, and a random sample would look quite different.

Annotated corpus

public materials, European supply position

Compositions fetched from open materials databases through OPTIMADE, each joined to the element criticality table. A sample of the full corpus is browsable here. Properties come with them, so the corpus answers the question no existing database can: materials with this property that avoid critical elements.

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FormulaElementsGoverning Band gapMagn. Hull ScoreTier
Sampling caveat. This corpus is sampled per element across the critical, strategic and by-product lists, so it contains critical elements by construction. Use it to screen individual materials. The tier mix describes this sample and not materials in general.

Element reference

the annotation layer

Every score on this page derives from this table. Critical and strategic status is read from Regulation (EU) 2024/1252; the rest is banded and approximate. Select an element for the full entry.

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