Abstract: Material creation systems and methods for quickly identifying which existing experimental run, or newly-created material, best matches a desired set of properties are described so that product development time can be minimized. Users may input the properties they desire in a material, the acceptable values of those properties, the goals for each property, and a priority value for each property. Preliminary matching existing experimental runs may be retrieved from an experimental run database. One of four desirability functions may then be utilized to calculate a scored property value for each property of each existing experimental run. The scored property value may then be weighted to account for the priority value assigned to each property. The results may then be sorted in descending order based on their overall match scores, and output to the user so the best matching existing experimental run(s) is readily identifiable by the user.