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Pearson’s Datafile Now Available in MedeA

ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico and Materials Park, Ohio, USA
and LE MANS, FRANCE – March 27, 2008.

Materials Design Inc. and ASM International are pleased to announce the availability of the Pearson’s datafile within the MedeA software platform.

The Pearson’s datafile is a crystallographic database published by ASM International that contains crystal structures of the full range of inorganic compounds. This release contains 150,000 structural data sets (including atom coordinates and displacement parameters, when determined) for more than 95,000 different phases.

The MedeA software platform combines experimental structure databases such as the Pearson’s datafile and high performance computational methods with advanced model building and analysis tools, graphical user interfaces, and task automation.

Dr. Erich Wimmer, President of Materials Design Inc. commented “The Pearson’s datafile represents one of the most comprehensive global sets of inorganic crystallographic structural data available today. The integration into the MedeA software environment where this structural data is combined with leading quantum mechanical and statistical mechanics approaches to predict the properties of materials is a powerful enabling capability for materials scientists and engineers.”

Scott Henry, Senior Publishing Manager for ASM International added “We have enjoyed a long productive working relationship with Dr. Pierre Villars, the editor of the Pearson’s datafile and are pleased to see the availability of this information in MedeA.”

For information on the Pearson’s datafile availability and pricing in MedeA, please contact sales@materialsdesign.com.

Materials Design celebrates 10 years of excellence

ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico, USA and LE MANS, FRANCE – Feb. 27, 2008.

In 1998 a group of computational scientists started Materials Design with a very clear vision: to create the best commercial software environment for computational materials science. This vision has become reality in the form of the MedeA software platform. First released in 2000, MedeA has evolved and expanded greatly and is now used on a daily basis by scientists and engineers around the globe.

Today, Materials Design’s products are helping to solve some of the major technological challenges of the
21^st Century in the areas of energy, environment, transportation and information technology. Applications have included:

	a better understanding of grain boundaries in high-strength alloys;
	determination of defect properties in semiconductors;
	control of interfaces in novel microelectronics devices;
	the search for better thermoelectric materials;
	the optimization of thermodynamic properties in hydrogen storage materials;
	the development of novel fuel catalysts for a cleaner environment;
	and many more.

Three major factors have made this success possible: A visionary software concept, the skill and dedication of the MD team and its technology partners, and most importantly, the trust and support of our customers over the years. We are particularly proud of the fact that MD’s growth has been entirely funded by revenues from software sales and contract research.

While the capabilities of the MedeA platform continue to expand, and contract research projects for our customers lead us to new horizons, one foundation remains unchanged: Our commitment to the highest level of scientific excellence in our products, projects and customer support.

We thank our customers and partners for driving this success and look forward to another 10 years of working closely with them to accomplish their goals.

Materials Design expands into China

ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico, USA and LE MANS, FRANCE – Feb. 13, 2008.

We at Materials Design are excited to announce our collaboration with Beijing Hongcam Software Technologies to distribute Materials Design’s MedeA software platform in China. We are looking forward to working with Hong Gao, president of Beijing Hongcam Software Technologies, and his staff in providing leading materials science software to this very important expanding world market.

“The admirable growth of China’s economy creates daunting challenges in the areas of energy supply and new materials,” says Dr. Erich Wimmer, President of Materials Design, Inc. "China’s impressive investment in universities and institutes of technology recognizes the fact that science, and in particular materials science, plays a key role in finding sustainable and environmentally responsible solutions. I am delighted about our collaboration with Hongcam to provide leading materials science software technology to Chinese researchers and engineers to help meeting these challenges."

According to its website (www.hongcam.com.cn), "Hongcam is the first and largest Chinese agent for calculation software, especially in chemistry, materials, biology and pharmacology science as well as other related areas."

For more information, please contact support@materialsdesign.com or sales@hongcam.com.cn.

St. Charles MedeA User Group Meeting a 'great success'

ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico, USA and LE MANS, FRANCE – Oct. 31, 2007.

Members of the Materials Design team and MedeA customers

MedeA user group meeting - Many thanks to all of you who attended our annual MedeA User Group Meeting at Pheasant Run Resort & Spa in St. Charles, Illinois, USA. "Judging by the comments we have received from participants, I believe this meeting was again a great success," said Materials Design President Dr. Erich Wimmer. "These meetings are useful for our customers and for the Materials Design team as as well -- we always come away with new ideas for improving our products."

Almost 30 users from the United States, Europe, South Africa and Japan gathered outside Chicago to listen to informative talks, exchange ideas and discuss solutions to materials science problems using the MedeA software suite.

We are already looking forward to next year's event!

MedeA 2.2 released

ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico, USA and LE MANS, FRANCE - Oct 15, 2006

MedeA 2.2 released -- Materials Design has released its latest version of the MedeA platform. Main features of the new release are improved support for large-scale calculations, integrated parallel message parsing and 64/32-bit support for parallel and serial VASP under Windows and Linux.

See release notes for details

Interface builder capability available

ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico, USA and LE MANS, FRANCE - April 06, 2006

MedeA Interface Search released -- Materials Design, Inc. has released a new MedeA module providing structure building capabilities for interfaces and grain boundaries. The software employs a novel automated structure matching algorithm to identify grain boundaries and candidates for interfaces. The output of the Interface builder can be used directly as input for MedeA's computational modules or as a building block in MedeA's additional structure editing and analysis routines.

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