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Data-driven machine learning methods have the potential to dramatically accelerate the rate of materials design over conventional human-guided approaches. These methods would help identify or, in the case of generative models, even create…

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Experimentally obtained X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns can be difficult to solve, precluding the full characterization of materials, pharmaceuticals, and geological compounds. Herein, we propose a method based upon a multi-objective…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Stefano Racioppi , Alberto Otero De la Roza , Samad Hajinazar , Eva Zurek

The generation of plausible crystal structures is often the first step in predicting the structure and properties of a material from its chemical composition. Quickly generating and predicting inorganic crystal structures is important for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-13 Luis M. Antunes , Keith T. Butler , Ricardo Grau-Crespo

Accurately predicting experimentally realizable 3D molecular crystal structures from their 2D chemical graphs is a long-standing open challenge in computational chemistry called crystal structure prediction (CSP). Efficiently solving this…

One of the long-standing problems in materials science is how to predict a material's structure and then its properties given only its composition. Experimental characterization of crystal structures has been widely used for structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-29 Rongzhi Dong , Yong Zhao , Yuqi Song , Nihang Fu , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Sourin Dey , Qinyang Li , Lai Wei , Jianjun Hu

We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-18 A. R. Oganov , C. W. Glass

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

Diffraction is the most common method to solve for unknown or partially known crystal structures. However, it remains a challenge to determine the crystal structure of a new material that may have nanoscale size or heterogeneities. Here we…

Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction patterns is a complex challenge in materials science, often requiring extensive expertise and computational resources. This study introduces DiffractGPT, a generative pre-trained…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Kamal Choudhary

Crystal structure prediction algorithms have become powerful tools for materials discovery in recent years, however, they are usually limited to relatively small systems. The main challenge is that the number of local minima grows…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-09 Hao Gao , Junjie Wang , Yu Han , Jian Sun

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 structures can be predicted from first-principles using ab initio random structure searching AIRSS and density functional theory (DFT). AIRSS provides a method to sample the potential energy landscape and DFT provides a robust and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Lewis J. Conway , Chris J. Pickard

Determination of crystal structures of nanocrystalline or amorphous compounds is a great challenge in solid states chemistry and physics. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of X-Ray or neutron total scattering data has proven to be a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Magnus Kløve , Sanna Sommer , Bo B. Iversen , Bjørk Hammer , Wilke Dononelli

The recently developed evolutionary algorithm USPEX proved to be a tool that enables accurate and reliable prediction of structures for a given chemical composition. Here we extend this method to predict the crystal structure of polymers by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-03 Qiang Zhu , Vinit Sharma , Artem R Oganov , Rampi Ramprasad

Machine learning (ML) is becoming increasingly popular for predicting material properties to accelerate materials discovery. Because material properties are strongly affected by its crystal structure, a key issue is converting the crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-12 Hirofumi Tsuruta , Yukari Katsura , Masaya Kumagai

Crystal-structure phase mapping is a core, long-standing challenge in materials science that requires identifying crystal structures, or mixtures thereof, in synthesized materials. Materials science experts excel at solving simple systems…

We demonstrate a machine learning-based approach which predicts the properties of crystal structures following relaxation based on the unrelaxed structure. Use of crystal graph singular values reduces the number of features required to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-15 Ethan P. Shapera , Dejan-Krešimir Bučar , Rohit P. Prasankumar , Christoph Heil

Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar , Matthew A. McDonald , Feng Liu

Crystal structures are indispensable across various domains, from batteries to solar cells, and extensive research has been dedicated to predicting their properties based on their atomic configurations. However, prevailing Crystal Structure…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Hannah Janmohamed , Marta Wolinska , Shikha Surana , Thomas Pierrot , Aron Walsh , Antoine Cully

A central problem of materials science is to determine whether a hypothetical material is stable without being synthesized, which is mathematically equivalent to a global optimization problem on a highly non-linear and multi-modal potential…

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