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Determining crystal structures from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) has been a significant challenge in materials science, particularly when experimental data contain noise or the target structure has a high complexity. While recent AI…

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Predicting materials properties from composition or structure is of great interest to the materials science community. Deep learning has recently garnered considerable interest in materials predictive tasks with low model errors when…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-01 Chi Chen , Shyue Ping Ong

The choice of structural resolution is a fundamental aspect of protein modelling, determining the balance between descriptive power and interpretability. Although atomistic simulations provide maximal detail, much of this information is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-23 Margherita Mele , Raffaele Fiorentini , Thomas Tarenzi , Giovanni Mattiotti , Raffaello Potestio

Disordered systems like liquids, gels, glasses, or granular materials are not only ubiquitous in daily life and in industrial applications but they are also crucial for the mechanical stability of cells or the transport of chemical and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-06 Zhen Zhang , Walter Kob

Recent advances in materials discovery have been driven by structure-based models, particularly those using crystal graphs. While effective for computational datasets, these models are impractical for real-world applications where atomic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jithendaraa Subramanian , Linda Hung , Daniel Schweigert , Santosh Suram , Weike Ye

Quantifying the level of atomic disorder within materials is critical to understanding how evolving local structural environments dictate performance and durability. Here, we leverage graph neural networks to define a physically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-02 James Chapman , Tim Hsu , Xiao Chen , Tae Wook Heo , Brandon C. Wood

We suggest and implement an approach for the bottom-up description of systems undergoing large-scale structural changes and chemical transformations from dynamic atomically resolved imaging data, where only partial or uncertain data on…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-23 Sergei V. Kalinin , Ondrej Dyck , Stephen Jesse , Maxim Ziatdinov

A wide range of synthesized crystalline inorganic materials exhibit compositional disorder, where multiple atomic species partially occupy the same crystallographic site. As a result, the physical and chemical properties of such materials…

This paper focuses on the development of the atomistic framework for determining the lower scale mechanical parameters of single components of a metal matrix composite for final application to a micromechanical damage model. Here, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-11 Marcin Maździarz , Szymon Nosewicz

In a recent publication [D. P. Varn, G. S. Canright, and J. P. Crutchfield, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 66}:17, 156 (2002)] we introduced a new technique for discovering and describing planar disorder in close-packed structures (CPSs) directly from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. P. Varn , G. S. Canright , J. P. Crutchfield

The three dimensional structure of large packings of monosized spheres with volume fractions ranging between 0.58 and 0.64 has been studied with X-ray Computed Tomography. We search for signatures of organization, we classify local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-19 T. Aste , M. Saadatfar , T. J. Senden

Amorphous solids such as glass are ubiquitous in our daily life and have found broad applications ranging from window glass and solar cells to telecommunications and transformer cores. However, due to the lack of long-range order, the…

The prediction of configurational disorder properties, such as configurational entropy and order-disorder phase transition temperature, of compound materials relies on efficient and accurate evaluations of configurational energies. Previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-31 Zhenyao Fang , Qimin Yan

In this paper the amorphous/solid to disorder liquid structural phase transitions of an anomalous confined fluid is analyzed using their local fractal dimension. The model is a system of particles interacting through a two length scales…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-17 Elsa M. de la Calleja-Mora , Leandro B. Krott , Marcia C. Barbosa

The fact that a disordered material is not constrained in its properties in the same way as a crystal presents significant and yet largely untapped potential for novel material design. However, unlike their crystalline counterparts,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-30 Carl P. Goodrich

Recent decades have seen the discovery of numerous complex materials. At the root of the complexity underlying many of these materials lies a large number of possible contending atomic- and larger-scale configurations and the intricate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-30 P. Ronhovde , S. Chakrabarty , M. Sahu , K. K. Sahu , K. F. Kelton , N. Mauro , Z. Nussinov

The classification of structural phase transitions as displacive or order-disorder in character is usually based on spectroscopic data above the transition. We use single crystal x-ray diffraction to investigate structural correlations in…

Amorphous multi-element materials offer unprecedented tunability in composition and properties, yet their rational design remains challenging due to the lack of predictive structure-property relationships and the vast configurational space.…

Generative AI models, such as score-based diffusion models, have recently advanced the field of computational materials science by enabling the generation of new materials with desired properties. In addition, these models could also be…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Timo Reents , Arianna Cantarella , Marnik Bercx , Pietro Bonfà , Giovanni Pizzi

The spherically averaged structure function $\soq$ obtained from pulsed neutron powder diffraction contains both elastic and inelastic scattering via an integral over energy. The Fourier transformation of $\soq$ to real space, as is done in…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 D. A. Dimitrov , D. Louca , H. Röder