Software package "Materials Designer" and its application in materials research

A useful software, "Materials Designer", has been built based on a series of new computation methods. It can be used to help scientists or engineers to solve a series of problems in research work, including the following applications: 1) to optimize the technological conditions in materials preparation, in order to achieve better performance of the products; and 2) to predict the properties and phase components of unknown materials. Examples of applications are described to show the usefulness of this software.