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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…

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Inverse design of solid-state materials with desired properties represents a formidable challenge in materials science. Although recent generative models have demonstrated potential, their adoption has been hindered by limitations such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Yan Chen , Xueru Wang , Xiaobin Deng , Yilun Liu , Xi Chen , Yunwei Zhang , Lei Wang , Hang Xiao

Generative design marks a significant data-driven advancement in the exploration of novel inorganic materials, which entails learning the symmetry equivalent to the crystal structure prediction (CSP) task and subsequent learning of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Ruiming Zhu , Wei Nong , Shuya Yamazaki , Kedar Hippalgaonkar

Machine learning (ML) models utilizing structure-based features provide an efficient means for accurate property predictions across diverse chemical spaces. However, obtaining equilibrium crystal structures typically requires expensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-22 Yunxing Zuo , Mingde Qin , Chi Chen , Weike Ye , Xiangguo Li , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong

Materials-by-design has been historically challenging due to complex process-microstructure-property relations. Conventional analytical or simulation-based approaches suffer from low accuracy or long computational time and poor…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Xiao Shang , Zhiying Liu , Jiahui Zhang , Tianyi Lyu , Yu Zou

The development of new materials typically involves a process of trial and error, guided by insights from past experimental and theoretical findings. The inverse design approach for soft-matter systems has the potential to optimize specific…

Inverse design of inorganic crystals, in which structures are generated to satisfy a target property while preserving diversity and physical plausibility, remains more demanding than ab initio generation, as property conditioning can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Ibuki Okuda , Izumi Takahara , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

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

Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are efficient at finding materials with desired properties, via…

Generative models hold the promise of significantly expediting the materials design process when compared to traditional human-guided or rule-based methodologies. However, effectively generating high-quality periodic structures of materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Anshuman Sinha , Shuyi Jia , Victor Fung

Generative models show great promise for the inverse design of molecules and inorganic crystals, but remain largely ineffective within more complex structures such as amorphous materials. Here, we present a diffusion model that reliably…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-21 Kai Yang , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

One emerging approach for the fabrication of complex architectures on the nanoscale is to utilize particles customized to intrinsically self-assemble into a desired structure. Inverse methods of statistical mechanics have proven…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-08 R. B. Jadrich , B. A. Lindquist , T. M. Truskett

Despite rapid growth in use cases for generative artificial intelligence, its ability to design purpose built crystalline materials remains in a nascent phase. At the moment inverse design is generally accomplished by either constraining…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-08 Alexander C. Tyner

The emergence of deep learning has brought the long-standing goal of comprehensively understanding and exploring crystalline materials closer to reality. Yet, universal exploration across all elements remains hindered by the combinatorial…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-18 Fengyu Xie , Ruoyu Wang , Taoyuze Lv , Yuxiang Gao , Hongyu Wu , Zhicheng Zhong

Predicting stable and metastable structures is central to molecular and materials discovery, but remains limited by the cost of searching high-dimensional energy landscapes. Deep generative models offer efficient structure sampling, yet…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifang Qin , Yu Shi , Junfu Tan , Chang Liu , Ming Zhang , Ziheng Lu

We propose a method for crystal structure prediction based on a new structure generation algorithm and on-lattice machine learning interatomic potentials. Our algorithm generates the atomic configurations assigning atomic species to sites…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 Vadim Sotskov , Alexander V. Shapeev , Evgeny V. Podryabinkin

The rise of machine learning has fueled the discovery of new materials and, especially, metamaterials--truss lattices being their most prominent class. While their tailorable properties have been explored extensively, the design of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Li Zheng , Konstantinos Karapiperis , Siddhant Kumar , Dennis M. Kochmann

The large-scale search for high-performing candidate 2D materials is limited to calculating a few simple descriptors, usually with first-principles density functional theory calculations. In this work, we alleviate this issue by extending…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Victor Venturi , Holden Parks , Zeeshan Ahmad , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

Machine learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized complex materials design by enabling rapid exploration of material configurational spaces via crystal structure prediction with ab initio accuracy. However, critical challenges…

Exploring the vast composition space of multi-component alloys presents a challenging task for both \textit{ab initio} (first principles) and experimental methods due to the time-consuming procedures involved. This ultimately impedes the…