The NSDL MatDL Pathway aims to provide stewardship for content and services needed across the MS community and in particular for its targeted audience of materials undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and researchers by offering:

1. Tools, like the Repository and Soft Matter Wiki, to describe, manage, exchange, archive, and disseminate data among national and international government-funded materials teams and centers.

2. MatForge for open access development of modeling and simulation tools.

3. Teaching Archive for collaborative development of core undergraduate MS teaching materials.

4. Services and content for Virtual Labs in large undergraduate introductory science courses