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Approximate density functional theory (DFT) has become indispensable owing to its cost-accuracy trade-off in comparison to more computationally demanding but accurate correlated wavefunction theory. To date, however, no single density…

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Structures and properties of many inorganic compounds have been collected historically. However, it only covers a very small portion of possible inorganic crystals, which implies the presence of numerous currently unknown compounds. A…

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Recent advances in the synthesis of polar molecular materials have produced practical alternatives to ferroelectric ceramics, opening up exciting new avenues for their incorporation into modern electronic devices. However, in order to…

Thermoelectric materials, which can convert waste heat into electricity or act as solid-state Peltier coolers, are emerging as key technologies to address global energy shortages and environmental sustainability. However, discovering…

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Computational chemistry has become an indispensable tool for generating data and insights, pervading all branches of experimental chemistry. Its most central concept is the potential energy hypersurface, key to all chemistry and materials…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Raphael T. Husistein , Markus Reiher

Finding new superconductors with a high critical temperature ($T_c$) has been a challenging task due to computational and experimental costs. We present a diffusion model inspired by the computer vision community to generate new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-28 Daniel Wines , Tian Xie , Kamal Choudhary

Transition metal penta-tellurides, ZrTe5 and HfTe5 have been recently drawn a lot of attention due to their fascinating physical properties and for being prominent materials showing topological phase transitions. In this study, we…

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Due to the vast chemical space, discovering materials with a specific function is challenging. Chemical formulas are obligated to conform to a set of exacting criteria such as charge neutrality, balanced electronegativity, synthesizability,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-03 Rongzhi Dong , Nihang Fu , dirisuriya M. D. Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Thermoelectric (TE) materials are among very few sustainable yet feasible energy solutions of present time. This huge promise of energy harvesting is contingent on identifying/designing materials having higher efficiency than presently…

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool for predicting molecular properties in chemical reaction networks with reduced computational cost. However, accurately predicting energies of transition state (TS) structures remains a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Stefan Gugler , Markus Reiher

Dielectric properties of material mixtures are of importance in diagnostics, characterization and design of systems in various engineering fields. In this Letter, we propose a peculiar dielectric mixture expression, which is based on the…

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Even though thermodynamic energy-based crystal structure prediction (CSP) has revolutionized materials discovery, the energy-driven CSP approaches often struggle to identify experimentally realizable metastable materials synthesized through…

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Machine learning (ML) can facilitate efficient thermoelectric (TE) material discovery essential to address the environmental crisis. However, ML models often suffer from poor experimental generalizability despite high metrics. This study…

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The discovery of new superconducting materials, particularly those exhibiting high critical temperature ($T_c$), has been a vibrant area of study within the field of condensed matter physics. Conventional approaches primarily rely on…

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We demonstrate a machine learning approach designed to extract hidden chemistry/physics to facilitate new materials discovery. In particular, we propose a novel method for learning latent knowledge from material structure data in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-03 Tien-Cuong Nguyen , Van-Quyen Nguyen , Van-Linh Ngo , Quang-Khoat Than , Tien-Lam Pham

We employ a descriptor based machine-learning approach to assess the effect of chemical alloying on formation-enthalpy of rare-earth intermetallics. Application of machine-learning approaches in rare-earth intermetallic design have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-07 Prashant Singh , Tyler Del Rose , Guillermo Vazquez , Raymundo Arroyave , Yaroslav Mudryk

We propose an efficient computational methodology for predicting the synthesizability of high entropy oxides (HEOs) in a large space of possible candidate compounds. HEOs are a growing field with an enormous potential chemical composition…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Oliver A. Dicks , Solveig S. Aamlid , Alannah M. Hallas , Joerg Rottler

In this work, we first perform a systematic search for high-efficiency three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials by combining semiclassical transport techniques with density functional theory (DFT)…

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