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Exploration of new superconductors still relies on the experience and intuition of experts and is largely a process of experimental trial and error. In one study, only 3% of the candidate materials showed superconductivity. Here, we report…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Tomohiko Konno , Hodaka Kurokawa , Fuyuki Nabeshima , Yuki Sakishita , Ryo Ogawa , Iwao Hosako , Atsutaka Maeda

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) stands as a powerful tool in materials science, driving the discovery and design of innovative materials. However, existing CSP methods heavily rely on formation enthalpies derived from density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Chenglong Qin , Jinde Liu , Shiyin Ma , Jiguang Du , Gang Jiang , Liang Zhao

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have wide applications in superconductors, quantum, and topological materials. However, their rational design is not well established, and currently less than 6,000 experimentally synthesized 2D materials have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Rongzhi Dong , Yuqi Song , Edirisuriya M. D. Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

The inverse design of materials with specific desired properties, such as high-temperature superconductivity, represents a formidable challenge in materials science due to the vastness of chemical and structural space. We present a guided…

Half-Heuslers are a promising family for thermoelectric (TE) applications, yet only a small fraction of their potential chemistries has been experimentally explored. In this work, we introduce a distinct computational high-throughput…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-22 Angela Pak , Kamil Ciesielski , Maria Wróblewska , Eric S. Toberer , Elif Ertekin

The most technologically consequential materials are often the rarest: they occupy narrow regions of chemical space, obey competing physical constraints, and appear only sparsely in existing databases. High-kappa dielectrics, high-Tc…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Hossain Hridoy , Tahiya Chowdhury , Md Shafayat Hossain

Nanostructuring has spurred a revival in the field of direct thermoelectric energy conversion. Nanograined materials can now be synthesized with higher figures of merit (ZT) than the bulk counterparts. This leads to increased conversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-25 Jesús Carrete , Natalio Mingo , Shidong Wang , Stefano Curtarolo

The true power of computational research typically can lay in either what it accomplishes or what it enables others to accomplish. In this work, both avenues are simultaneously embraced across several distinct efforts existing at three…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-06 Adam M. Krajewski

Machine learning models have recently emerged to predict whether hypothetical solid-state materials can be synthesized. These models aim to circumvent direct first-principles modeling of solid-state phase transformations, instead learning…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-05 Jane Schlesinger , Simon Hjaltason , Nathan J. Szymanski , Christopher J. Bartel

We present materials informatics approach to search for superconducting hydrogen compounds, which is based on a genetic algorithm and a genetic programming. This method consists of four stages: (i) search for stable crystal structures of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-13 Takahiro Ishikawa , Takashi Miyake , Katsuya Shimizu

The discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) with application-specific properties remains a central challenge in materials chemistry, owing to the immense size and complexity of their structural design space. Conventional computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Srivathsan Badrinarayanan , Rishikesh Magar , Akshay Antony , Radheesh Sharma Meda , Amir Barati Farimani

The advent of material databases provides an unprecedented opportunity to uncover predictive descriptors for emergent material properties from vast data space. However, common reliance on high-throughput ab initio data necessarily inherits…

The magnetic properties of a material are determined by a subtle balance between the various interactions at play, a fact that makes the design of new magnets a daunting task. High-throughput electronic structure theory may help to explore…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-16 James Nelson , Stefano Sanvito

We present an efficient criterion for probing the critical temperature of hydrogen based superconductors. We start by expanding the applicability of 3D descriptors of electron localization to superconducting states within the framework of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-13 Matías E. di Mauro , Benoît Braïda , Ion Errea , Trinidad Novoa , Julia Contreras-García

Van der Waals layered chalcogenide-based flexible thermoelectric devices show great potential for applications in wearable electronics. However, materials that are both highly deformable and exhibit superior thermoelectric performance are…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-10 Qi Ren , Yingzhuo Lun , Bonan Zhu , Gang Tang , Jiawang Hong

In this work, we have proposed a data-driven screening framework combining the interpretable machine learning with high-throughput calculations to identify a series of metal oxides that exhibit both high-temperature tolerance and high power…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-01 Shengluo Ma , Yongchao Rao , Xiang Huang , Shenghong Ju

The exploration of thermoelectric materials is challenging considering the large materials space, combined with added exponential degrees of freedom coming from doping and the diversity of synthetic pathways. Here we seek to incorporate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-21 Hitarth Choubisa , Md Azimul Haque , Tong Zhu , Lewei Zeng , Maral Vafaie , Derya Baran , Edward H Sargent

For technical applications thermoelectric materials with a high figure of merit are desirable, and strongly correlated electron systems are very promising in this respect. Since effects of bandstructure_and_ electronic correlations play an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Held , R. Arita , V. I. Anisimov , K. Kuroki

Thermoelectric (TE) technology enables direct heat-to-electricity conversion and is gaining attention as a clean, fuel-saving, and carbon-neutral solution for industrial, automotive, and marine applications. Despite nearly a century of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Nirma Kumari , Jaywan Chung , Seunghyun Oh , Jeongin Jang , Jongho Park , Ji Hui Son , SuDong Park , Byungki Ryu

Dielectrics are crucial for technologies like flash memory, CPUs, photovoltaics, and capacitors, but public data on these materials are scarce, restricting research and development. Existing machine learning models have focused on…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-11 Zetian Mao , Wenwen Li , Jethro Tan