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Due to the vast chemical space, discovering materials with a specific function is challenging. Chemical formulas are obligated to conform to a set of exacting criteria such as charge neutrality, balanced electronegativity, synthesizability,…

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In this paper, we leverage predictive uncertainty of deep neural networks to answer challenging questions material scientists usually encounter in machine learning based materials applications workflows. First, we show that by leveraging…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-26 Jize Zhang , Bhavya Kailkhura , T. Yong-Jin Han

The combination of deep learning and ab initio materials calculations is emerging as a trending frontier of materials science research, with deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure being particularly promising. In…

We discover many new crystalline solid materials with fast single crystal Li ion conductivity at room temperature, discovered through density functional theory simulations guided by machine learning-based methods. The discovery of new solid…

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In this study, a machine learning-based technique is developed to reduce the computational cost required to explore large design spaces of substitutional alloys. The first advancement is based on a neural network approach to predict the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Alhassan S. Yasin , Terence D. Musho

We develop a high-dimensional neural network potential (NNP) to describe the structural and energetic properties of borophene deposited on silver. This NNP has the accuracy of DFT calculations while achieving computational speedups of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Pierre Mignon , Abdul-Rahman Allouche , Neil Richard Innis , Colin Bousige

The calculation of electron density distribution using density functional theory (DFT) in materials and molecules is central to the study of their quantum and macro-scale properties, yet accurate and efficient calculation remains a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Teddy Koker , Keegan Quigley , Eric Taw , Kevin Tibbetts , Lin Li

Prediction of the electronic structure of functional materials is essential for the engineering of new devices. Conventional electronic structure prediction methods based on density functional theory (DFT) suffer from not only high…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-10 Junfei Zhang , Yueqi Li , Xinbo Zhou

The properties of electrons in matter are of fundamental importance. They give rise to virtually all molecular and material properties and determine the physics at play in objects ranging from semiconductor devices to the interior of giant…

Exploration of new superconductors still relies on the experience and intuition of experts and is largely a process of experimental trial and error. In one study, only 3% of the candidate materials showed superconductivity. Here, we report…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Tomohiko Konno , Hodaka Kurokawa , Fuyuki Nabeshima , Yuki Sakishita , Ryo Ogawa , Iwao Hosako , Atsutaka Maeda

Strain engineering provides a powerful route for tuning the electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, but exploring the full multidimensional strain space with density functional theory (DFT) is computationally prohibitive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Haoran Ma , Yuchen Zheng , Leining Zhang , Xiaofei Chen , Dan Wang

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

The development of new materials is a core aspect of advancement in synthesis and application for industry. There is a vast number of possible chemical permutations of the basic elements that can be explored to synthesize materials that…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-30 Antony A. Ayieko , Michael O. Atambo , George O. Amolo

We present a combined experimental and computational methodology for the discovery of new materials. Density functional theory (DFT) formation energy calculations allow us to predict the stability of various hypothetical structures. We…

Density Functional Theory (DFT) allows for predicting all the chemical and physical properties of molecular systems from first principles by finding an approximate solution to the many-body Schr\"odinger equation. However, the cost of these…

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DARWIN is an evolutionary GPT model, utilizing a genetic-algorithm like optimization structure with several independent GPT agents being trained individually using unique training code. Each iteration, the GPT models are prompted to modify…

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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…

This study introduces MatterVial, an innovative hybrid framework for feature-based machine learning in materials science. MatterVial expands the feature space by integrating latent representations from a diverse suite of pretrained graph…

Density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals (DFT+$U$+$V$) provides a robust framework to accurately describe complex materials containing transition-metal or rare-earth elements. It does so by mitigating self-interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-30 Martin Uhrin , Austin Zadoks , Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari , Iurii Timrov

Materials discovery, especially for applications that require extreme operating conditions, requires extensive testing that naturally limits the ability to inquire the wealth of possible compositions. Machine Learning (ML) has nowadays a…

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