Interview with: Stefano Curtarolo from Duke University and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli from the University of North Texas about sharing materials science data.
You can find the paper, “A RESTful API for exchanging materials data in the AFLOWLIB.org consortium” (DOI:10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.05.014) on ScienceDirect as well as here.
Researchers have shown that machine learing can automatically process the diffraction patterns produced by analyzing suface superstructures on silicon.