Zachary Trautt

I am passionate about improving the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of materials data. I am leading the project on FAIR Digital Object Framework for materials science and engineering.

Professional Activities

Study team member for Building a Materials Data Infrastructure
Year-1 Cohort developing the Federal Data Strategy
Detail assignment within the NIST Office of Data and Informatics from 2016 to 2018

Publications

Towards a composable, modular laboratory ecosystem for autonomous materials research and development

May 6, 2026

Author(s)

Howard Joress, Brian DeCost, Katelyn Jones, Aaron Kusne, Austin McDannald, Zachary Trautt, Francesca Tavazza

Autonomous and automated experimentation have demonstrated the possibility of accelerating materials research and development by orders of magnitude. However...

Workshop Report on Autonomous Methodologies for Accelerating X-ray Measurements

November 5, 2024

Author(s)

Zachary Trautt, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost, Howard Joress, A. Gilad Kusne, Francesca Tavazza, Tom Blanton

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the International Centre for Diffraction Data co-hosted a workshop on 17-18 October 2023 to identify and...

Driving U.S. Innovation in Materials and Manufacturing using AI and Autonomous Labs

August 14, 2024

Author(s)

Howie Joress, Zachary Trautt, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost, A. Gilad Kusne, Francesca Tavazza

With the goal of advancing US competitiveness and excellence in the materials and manufacturing industries, we present our vision for the National Center for...

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Data and Software Publications

Dataset: An Inter-Laboratory Study of Zn-Sn-Ti-O Thin Films using High-throughput Experimental Methods

Author(s)

Jason R Hattrick-Simpers, Andriy Zakutayev, Sara C Barron, Zachary T Trautt, Nam Nguyen, Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost, Caleb Phillips, A. Gilad Kusne, Feng Yi, Apurva Mehta, Ichiro Takeuchi, John D. Perkins, Martin L. Green

The open dataset accompanying An Inter-Laboratory Study of Zn-Sn-Ti-O Thin Films using High-throughput Experimental Methods (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscombsci.8b00158).High-throughput

Workshop Data on Autonomous Methodologies for Accelerating X-ray Measurements

Author(s)

Zachary T. Trautt, Austin S. McDannald, Brian L. DeCost, Howie L. Joress

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the International Centre for Diffraction Data co-hosted a workshop on 17-18 October 2023 to identify and prioritize the goals, challenges, and

Zachary Trautt (Fed)

Materials Research Engineer

Professional Activities

Publications

Towards a composable, modular laboratory ecosystem for autonomous materials research and development

Workshop Report on Autonomous Methodologies for Accelerating X-ray Measurements

Driving U.S. Innovation in Materials and Manufacturing using AI and Autonomous Labs

Data and Software Publications

Dataset: An Inter-Laboratory Study of Zn-Sn-Ti-O Thin Films using High-throughput Experimental Methods

Workshop Data on Autonomous Methodologies for Accelerating X-ray Measurements