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Materials design conventionally relies solely on the chemistry knowledge,experience and intuition of the researchers.With recent developments of computation techniques,high-throughput computing and modeling have been used to expedite the process of materials design,namely the Materials Genome approach 1.The Materials Genome approach allows people to compute the structure,stability,and physical/chemical properties of interest in a relatively short period of time and design new materials based on the computational results.On the other hand,experimental validation work is critically important to the success of this approach.Feedbacks from the experiments can provide more insight of the materials and shed light on the improvement of the computations.Here we report a successful example of rational materials design with the Materials Genome approach combined with experimental validation: the discovery of a group of novel carbonophosphate compounds and their applications as cathode materials in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries 1-3.