Despite the obvious challenges of providing materials, the combination of FAIR data and FAIR-AR materials reveals enormous potential for more transparent and sustainable research. In particular, experimental disciplines in natural sciences may benefit from a concept introducing models for a systematic provision of samples. If samples are submitted before the publication of results, the benefits could be increased as the sample deposit can be directly linked to the publication. This strengthens the trust in the work and allows a direct link of a publication to all gained resultsthe research data and the available material.