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The prediction of energetically stable crystal structures formed by a given chemical composition is a central problem in solid-state physics. In principle, the crystalline state of assembled atoms can be determined by optimizing the energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Minoru Kusaba , Chang Liu , Ryo Yoshida

Molecules can form myriad crystalline polymorphs, each with distinct properties affecting their performance across diverse applications, from pharmaceuticals to functional materials and more. Predicting the thermodynamically most stable…

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) of molecular crystals plays a central role in applications, such as pharmaceuticals and organic electronics. CSP is challenging and computationally expensive due to the need to explore a large search space…

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

Molecular crystals often exist in multiple competing polymorphs, showing significantly different physico-chemical properties. Computational crystal structure prediction is key to interpret and guide the search for the most stable or useful…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-16 Mariana Rossi , Piero Gasparotto , Michele Ceriotti

The prediction of material structure from chemical composition has been a long-standing challenge in natural science. Although there have been various methodological developments and successes with computer simulations, the prediction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Naoto Tsujimoto , Daiki Adachi , Ryosuke Akashi , Synge Todo , Shinji Tsuneyuki

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is now increasingly used in the discovery of novel materials with applications in diverse industries. However, despite decades of developments, the problem is far from being solved. With the progress of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-13 Lai Wei , Qin Li , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Jianjun Hu

Crystalline materials can form different structural arrangements (i.e. polymorphs) with the same chemical composition, exhibiting distinct physical properties depending on how they were synthesized or the conditions under which they…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Sadman Sadeed Omee , Lai Wei , Sourin Dey , Jianjun Hu

Accurate molecular crystal structure prediction is a fundamental goal in academic and industrial condensed matter research and polymorphism is arguably the biggest obstacle on the way. We tackle this challenge in the difficult case of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Cong Huy Pham , Emine Kucukbenli , Stefano de Gironcoli

Crystal structure prediction is a fundamental problem in materials science. We present CrystalFormer-CSP, an efficient framework that unifies data-driven heuristic and physics-driven optimization approaches to predict stable crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhendong Cao , Shigang Ou , Lei Wang

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is a useful tool in pharmaceutical development for identifying and assessing risks associated with polymorphism, yet widespread adoption has been hindered by high computational costs and the need for both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Zachary L. Glick , Derek P. Metcalf , Scott F. Swarthout

Polymorphism, the ability of a compound to crystallize in multiple distinct structures, plays a vital role in determining the physical, chemical, and functional properties of materials. Accurate identification and prediction of polymorphic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-15 Sourin Dey , Nicholas Miklaucic , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qinyang Li , Nihang Fu , Jianjun Hu

Determining the stability of chemical compounds is essential for advancing material discovery. In this study, we introduce a novel deep neural network model designed to predict a crystal's formation energy, which identifies its stability…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 V. Torlao , E. A. Fajardo

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has proven to be a highly effective route for discovering new materials. Substantial advancements have been made in CSP of inorganic and molecular crystals, while hybrid materials, including metal-organic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Elizaveta Yakovenko , Iurii Nevolin , Anatoliy Chasovskikh , Artem Mitrofanov , Vadim Korolev

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is crucial for identifying stable crystal structures in given systems and is a prerequisite for computational atomistic simulations. Recent advances in neural network potentials (NNPs) have reduced the…

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) -- the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based only on its molecular composition. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Andrew Wildman , Rodrigo Wang , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) for inorganic materials is one of the central and most challenging problems in materials science and computational chemistry. This problem can be formulated as a global optimization problem in which global…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianjun Hu , Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has emerged as one of the most important approaches for discovering new materials. CSP algorithms based on evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization have discovered a great number of new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) aims to discover solid crystalline materials by optimizing periodic arrangements of atoms, ions or molecules. CSP takes weeks of supercomputer time because of slow energy minimizations for millions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Jakob Ropers , Marco M Mosca , Olga Anosova , Vitaliy Kurlin , Andrew I Cooper

We have developed an efficient crystal structure prediction (CSP) method for desired chemical compositions, specifically suited for compounds featuring recurring molecules or rigid bodies. We applied this method to two metal chalcogenides:…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Qi Zhang , Amitava Choudhury , Aleksandr Chernatynskiy
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