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A fundamental challenge in materials science pertains to elucidating the relationship between stoichiometry, stability, structure, and property. Recent advances have shown that machine learning can be used to learn such relationships,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-17 Rhys E. A. Goodall , Abhijith S. Parackal , Felix A. Faber , Rickard Armiento , Alpha A. Lee

Defects dictate the properties of many functional materials. To understand the behaviour of defects and their impact on physical properties, it is necessary to identify the most stable defect geometries. However, global structure searching…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-12 Irea Mosquera-Lois , Seán R. Kavanagh , Alex M. Ganose , Aron Walsh

The large amount of powder diffraction data for which the corresponding crystal structures have not yet been identified suggests the existence of numerous undiscovered, physically relevant crystal structure prototypes. In this paper, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Abhijith S. Parackal , Rhys E. A. Goodall , Felix A. Faber , Rickard Armiento

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…

Large-scale computational surveys are increasingly used to map the landscape of stable crystalline materials. We report a high-throughput energy screening of inorganic crystals that enumerates binary and ternary compositions up to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Abhijith S Parackal , Florian Trybel , Felix Andreas Faber , Rickard Armiento

Materials identification and structural understanding from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) data is a long-standing challenge in materials science, fundamental to discovering and characterizing novel materials. A prerequisite for full…

De novo crystal generation, a central task in materials discovery, aims to generate crystals that are simultaneously valid, stable, unique, and novel. Existing methods mainly rely on black-box stochastic sampling, providing limited control…

Although the tailored metal active sites and porous architectures of MOFs hold great promise for engineering challenges ranging from gas separations to catalysis, a lack of understanding of how to improve their stability limits their use in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-28 Aditya Nandy , Chenru Duan , Heather J. Kulik

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…

The binary manganese aluminium (MnAl) alloy with L$1_0$ crystal structure is a promising rare earth element-free permanent magnetic material because of its exceptional magnetic properties. However, experimentally synthesizing it in a stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Churna Bhandari , Gavin N. Nope , T. Lograsso , Durga Paudyal

A systematic search for multicomponent crystal structures is carried out for five different ternary systems of nuclei in a polarizable background of electrons, representative of accreted neutron star crusts and some white dwarfs. Candidate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 T. A. Engstrom , N. C. Yoder , V. H. Crespi

A large number of novel two-dimensional (2D) materials are constantly discovered and deposed into the databases. Consolidate implementation of machine learning algorithms and density functional theory (DFT) based predictions have allowed…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-03 Andrey A. Kistanov , Stepan A. Shcherbinin , Romain Botella , Artur Davletshin , Wei Cao

Fast and accurate crystal structure prediction (CSP) algorithms and web servers are highly desirable for exploring and discovering new materials out of the infinite design space. However, currently, the computationally expensive first…

We demonstrate a machine learning approach designed to extract hidden chemistry/physics to facilitate new materials discovery. In particular, we propose a novel method for learning latent knowledge from material structure data in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-03 Tien-Cuong Nguyen , Van-Quyen Nguyen , Van-Linh Ngo , Quang-Khoat Than , Tien-Lam Pham

Predicting solid-solid phase transitions remains a long-standing challenge in materials science. Solid-solid transformations underpin a wide range of functional properties critical to energy conversion, information storage, and thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Cibrán López , Joshua Ojih , Ming Hu , Josep Lluis Tamarit , Edgardo Saucedo , Claudio Cazorla

Machine learning is changing how we design and interpret experiments in materials science. In this work, we show how unsupervised learning, combined with ab initio modeling, improves our understanding of structural metastability in…

First-principles based crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods have revealed an essential tool for the discovery of new materials. However, in solids close to displacive phase transitions, which are common in ferroelectrics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Hao Gao , Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea

Crystallization of the amorphous phases into metastable crystals plays a fundamental role in the formation of new matter, from geological to biological processes in nature to synthesis and development of new materials in the laboratory.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-03 Muratahan Aykol , Amil Merchant , Simon Batzner , Jennifer N. Wei , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Recent advances in materials discovery have been driven by structure-based models, particularly those using crystal graphs. While effective for computational datasets, these models are impractical for real-world applications where atomic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jithendaraa Subramanian , Linda Hung , Daniel Schweigert , Santosh Suram , Weike Ye

Density functional theory is routinely applied to predict crystal structures. The most common exchange-correlation functionals used to this end are the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) approximation and its variant PBEsol. We investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-18 Robert Hussein , Jonathan Schmidt , Tomás Barros , Miguel A. L. Marques , Silvana Botti