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Evolutionary crystal structure prediction proved to be a powerful approach for studying a wide range of materials. Here, we present a specifically designed algorithm for the prediction of the structure of complex crystals consisting of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-21 Qiang Zhu , Artem R. Oganov , Colin W. Glass , Harold T. Stokes

Predicting crystal structures from chemical compositions is a fundamental challenge in materials discovery, complicated by complex 3D geometries that distinguish it from fields like protein folding. Here, we present Diffusion-based Crystal…

Crystal Toolkit is an open source tool for viewing, analyzing and transforming crystal structures, molecules and other common forms of materials science data in an interactive way. It is intended to help beginners rapidly develop web-based…

Conventionally, high-throughput computational materials searches start from an input set of bulk compounds extracted from material databases, and this set is screened for candidate materials for specific applications. In contrast, many…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-11 Rachel Woods-Robinson , Matthew K. Horton , Kristin A. Persson

Crystal structures can be predicted from first-principles using ab initio random structure searching AIRSS and density functional theory (DFT). AIRSS provides a method to sample the potential energy landscape and DFT provides a robust and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Lewis J. Conway , Chris J. Pickard

Predicting phase stabilities of crystal polymorphs is central to computational materials science and chemistry. Such predictions are challenging because they first require searching for potential energy minima and then performing arduous…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-15 Aleks Reinhardt , Chris J. Pickard , Bingqing Cheng

The robust and automated determination of crystal symmetry is of utmost importance in material characterization and analysis. Recent studies have shown that deep learning (DL) methods can effectively reveal the correlations between X-ray or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Leslie Ching Ow Tiong , Jeongrae Kim , Sang Soo Han , Donghun Kim

We develop a materials descriptor based on the electronic density of states and investigate the similarity of materials based on it. As an application example, we study the Computational 2D Materials Database that hosts thousands of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-07 Martin Kuban , Santiago Rigamonti , Markus Scheidgen , Claudia Draxl

One of the long-standing problems in materials science is how to predict a material's structure and then its properties given only its composition. Experimental characterization of crystal structures has been widely used for structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-29 Rongzhi Dong , Yong Zhao , Yuqi Song , Nihang Fu , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Sourin Dey , Qinyang Li , Lai Wei , Jianjun Hu

Crystalline phase structure is essential for understanding the performance and properties of a material. Therefore, this study identified and quantified the crystalline phase structure of a sample based on the diffraction pattern observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-27 Ryo Murakami , Yoshitaka Matsushita , Kenji Nagata , Hayaru Shouno , Hideki Yoshikawa

Generating novel crystalline materials has the potential to lead to advancements in fields such as electronics, energy storage, and catalysis. The defining characteristic of crystals is their symmetry, which plays a central role in…

The ability to understand the atomistic mechanisms that occur in the solid phase transition is of crucial importance in materials research. To investigate the displacive phase transition at the atomic scale, we have implemented a numerical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-06 Qiang Zhu , Byungkyun Kang , Kevin Parrish

Crystal structure generation is fundamental to materials science, enabling the discovery of novel materials with desired properties. While existing approaches leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) through extensive fine-tuning on materials…

This paper was motivated by the articles "Same or different - that is the question" in CrystEngComm (July 2020) and "Change to the definition of a crystal" in the IUCr newsletter (June 2021). Experimental approaches to crystal comparisons…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-21 Olga Anosova , Vitaliy Kurlin , Marjorie Senechal

The paper investigates a novel approach, based on Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), to predict the 3D conformation of a protein via fragments assembly. The fragments are extracted by a preprocessor-also developed for this work- from a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Alessandro Dal Palu' , Agostino Dovier , Federico Fogolari , Enrico Pontelli

Atom arrangement plays a critical role in determining material properties. It is, therefore, essential for materials science and engineering to identify and characterize distinct atom configurations. Currently, crystal structures can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-18 Rafał Abram , Dariusz Chrobak

Crystal structure forms the foundation for understanding the physical and chemical properties of materials. Generative models have emerged as a new paradigm in crystal structure prediction(CSP), however, accurately capturing key…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Ziyi Chen , Yang Yuan , Siming Zheng , Jialong Guo , Sihan Liang , Yangang Wang , Zongguo Wang

We face a need of discovering a pattern in locations of a great number of points in a high-dimensional space. Goal is to group the close points together. We are interested in a hierarchical structure, like a B-tree. B-Trees are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Victor Sadikov , Oliver Rutishauser

Systematic comparisons across theoretical predictions for the properties of dense matter, nuclear physics data, and astrophysical observations (also called meta-analyses) are performed. Existing predictions for symmetric nuclear and neutron…

Accurately determining the crystallographic structure of a material, organic or inorganic, is a critical primary step in material development and analysis. The most common practices involve analysis of diffraction patterns produced in…