>>13429203At this point, it seems as though most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked, but there is still hope. Look into High-entropy alloys. They are alloys with a five or more principal elements instead of the traditional one or two, and thus there are a shitload (estimated ~10^177) possible HEA configurations. A lot of HEAs have already been created and have shown pretty promising results... I haven't looked too much into discovery side of things, but with the ludicrous number of possible alloy compositions, the obvious choice is computational modeling to try and optimize for certain properties. Unfortunately, there isn't a ton of good introductory literature to this stuff unless you've got a solid background in materials science & engineering (which I don't, so if someone in MSE wants to correct me go ahead), which kinda sucks, but it's still pretty cool nonetheless.