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The ability to readily design novel materials with chosen functional properties on-demand represents a next frontier in materials discovery. However, thoroughly and efficiently sampling the entire design space in a computationally tractable…

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In machine learning and molecular design, there exist two approaches: discriminative and generative. In the discriminative approach dubbed forward design, the goal is to map a set of features/molecules to their respective electronics…

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The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design…

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Colloidal self-assembly -- the spontaneous organization of colloids into ordered structures -- has been considered key to produce next-generation materials. However, the present-day staggering variety of colloidal building blocks and the…

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The success of the Materials Genome Initiative has led to opportunities for data-driven approaches for materials discovery. The recent development of Polymer Genome (PG), which is a machine learning (ML) based data-driven informatics…

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Machine learning (ML) is emerging as a transformative tool for the design of architected materials, offering properties that far surpass those achievable through lab-based trial-and-error methods. However, a major challenge in current…

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We develop a Machine Learning Inversion method for analyzing scattering functions of mechanically driven polymers and extracting the corresponding feature parameters, which include energy parameters and conformation variables. The polymer…

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Machine learning (ML) accelerates the exploration of material properties and their links to the structure of the underlying molecules. In previous work [J. Shi, M. J. Quevillon, P. H. A. Valen\c{c}a, and J. K. Whitmer, \textit{ACS Appl.…

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