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Predicting which hypothetical inorganic crystals can be experimentally realized remains a central challenge in accelerating materials discovery. SyntheFormer is a positive-unlabeled framework that learns synthesizability directly from…

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Computational methods that automatically extract knowledge from data are critical for enabling data-driven materials science. A reliable identification of lattice symmetry is a crucial first step for materials characterization and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 A. Ziletti , D. Kumar , M. Scheffler , L. M. Ghiringhelli

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

We search for new superhard B-N-O compounds with an iterative machine learning (ML) procedure, where ML models are trained using sample crystal structures from evolutionary algorithm. We first use cohesive energy to evaluate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Wei-Chih Chen , Yogesh K. Vohra , Cheng-Chien Chen

In this letter we propose a new methodology for crystal structure prediction, which is based on the evolutionary algorithm USPEX and the machine-learning interatomic potentials actively learning on-the-fly. Our methodology allows for an…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 Evgeny V. Podryabinkin , Evgeny V. Tikhonov , Alexander V. Shapeev , Artem R. Oganov

We perform extensive density functional theory (DFT) calculations to determine the stability and elementary properties of 4249 previously unexplored monolayer crystals. The monolayers comprise the most stable subset (energy within 0.1…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-18 Peder Lyngby , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

Despite an artificial intelligence-assisted modeling of disordered crystals is a widely used and well-tried method of new materials design, the issues of its robustness, reliability, and stability are still not resolved and even not…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Fedor S. Avilov , Roman A. Eremin , Semen A. Budennyy , Innokentiy S. Humonen

Predicting the stability of crystals is one of the central problems in materials science. Today, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are the computational tool of choice to obtain energies of crystals with quantitative accuracy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Weike Ye , Chi Chen , Zhenbin Wang , Iek-Heng Chu , Shyue Ping Ong

Due to the subtle balance of intermolecular interactions that govern structure-property relations, predicting the stability of crystal structures formed from molecular building blocks is a highly non-trivial scientific problem. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Rose K. Cersonsky , Maria Pakhnova , Edgar A. Engel , Michele Ceriotti

Global optimization of crystal compositions is a significant yet computationally intensive method to identify stable structures within chemical space. The specific physical properties linked to a three-dimensional atomic arrangement make…

Crystal-graph attention networks have emerged recently as remarkable tools for the prediction of thermodynamic stability and materials properties from unrelaxed crystal structures. Previous networks trained on two million materials…

A multitude of observed boron-based materials have outstanding superconducting, mechanical, and refractory properties. Yet, the structure, the composition, and the very existence of some reported metal boride (M-B) compounds have been a…

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We report the development of a combined machine-learning and high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) framework to accelerate the search for new ferroelectric materials. The framework can predict potential ferroelectric compounds…

Developing fast and accurate methods to discover intermetallic compounds is relevant for alloy design. While density-functional-theory (DFT)-based methods have accelerated design of binary and ternary alloys by providing rapid access to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Zhaohan Zhang , Mu Li , Katharine Flores , Rohan Mishra

Lattice constants such as unit cell edge lengths and plane angles are important parameters of the periodic structures of crystal materials. Predicting crystal lattice constants has wide applications in crystal structure prediction and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-02 Yuxin Li , Wenhui Yang , Rongzhi Dong , Jianjun Hu

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

Multicomponent transition metal carbides are promising for extreme-environment applications, but identifying compositions that are both synthesizable and hard remains challenging. We fine-tune the MACE machine-learned interatomic potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Xin Liu , Anirudh Raju Natarajan

The constant demand for new functional materials calls for efficient strategies to accelerate the materials design and discovery. In addressing this challenge, machine learning generative models can offer promising opportunities since they…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-24 Sungwon Kim , Juhwan Noh , Geun Ho Gu , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Yousung Jung

Ultrahigh lattice thermal conductivity materials hold great importance since they play a critical role in the thermal management of electronic and optical devices. Models using machine learning can search for materials with outstanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Shenghong Ju , Ryo Yoshida , Chang Liu , Kenta Hongo , Terumasa Tadano , Junichiro Shiomi

Crystal structure search is a long-standing challenge in materials design. We present a dataset of more than 100,000 structural relaxations of potential battery anode materials from randomized structures using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-10 Gowoon Cheon , Lusann Yang , Kevin McCloskey , Evan J. Reed , Ekin D. Cubuk