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Metastable materials are abundant in nature and technology, showcasing remarkable properties that inspire innovative materials design. However, traditional crystal structure prediction methods, which rely solely on energetic factors to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-27 Busheng Wang , Katerina P. Hilleke , Samad Hajinazar , Gilles Frapper , Eva Zurek

Crystal structure predictions based on the combination of first-principles calculations and machine learning have achieved significant success in materials science. However, most of these approaches are limited to predicting specific…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-28 Zongguo Wang , Ziyi Chen , Yang Yuan , Yangang Wang

Crystal surfaces are sensitive to the surrounding environment, where atoms left with broken bonds reconstruct to minimize surface energy. In many cases, the surface can exhibit chemical properties unique from the bulk. These differences are…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Weizong Xu , Preston C. Bowes , Everett D. Grimley , Douglas L. Irving , James M. LeBeau

Superconductors have the potential to revolutionize technology due to their ability to have zero electrical resistance. However, superconductor materials require either low temperatures or high pressures to function in a superconductive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-29 Ekram M Towsif

Reliable and robust methods of predicting the crystal structure of a compound, based only on its chemical composition, is crucial to the study of materials and their applications. Despite considerable ongoing research efforts, crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Qi-Jun Hong , Joseph Yasi , Axel van de Walle

Lithium (Li) is a prototypical simple metal at ambient conditions, but exhibits remarkable changes in structural and electronic properties under compression. There has been intense debate about the structure of dense Li, and recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Xiaoyang Wang , Zhenyu Wang , Pengyue Gao , Chengqian Zhang , Jian Lv , Han Wang , Haifeng Liu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

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

The ability to reliably predict the structures and stabilities of a molecular crystal and its polymorphs without any prior experimental information would be an invaluable tool for a number of fields, with specific and immediate applications…

Crystal structure prediction has been a subject of topical interest, but remains a substantial challenge, especially for complex structures as it deals with the global minimization of the extremely rugged high-dimensional potential energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-26 Xuecheng Shao , Jian Lv , Peng Liu , Sen Shao , Pengyue Gao , Hanyu Liu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

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

Identifying single phase, high-entropy systems has been a prominent research focus of materials engineering over the past decade. The considerable effort in computational modeling and experimental verification has yielded several methods…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-02 Kevin Kaufmann , Haoren Wang , Jaskaran Saini , Kenneth S. Vecchio

Accurate molecular crystal structure prediction is a fundamental goal in academic and industrial condensed matter research and polymorphism is arguably the biggest obstacle on the way. We tackle this challenge in the difficult case of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Cong Huy Pham , Emine Kucukbenli , Stefano de Gironcoli

Lattice thermal conductivity (kL) is a crucial physical property of crystals with applications in thermal management, such as heat dissipation, insulation, and thermoelectric energy conversion. However, accurately and rapidly determining kL…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-08 Xiaoying Wang , Guoyu Shu , Guimei Zhu , Jiansheng Wang , Jun Sun , Xiangdong Ding , Baowen Li , Zhibin Gao

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) of molecular crystals plays a central role in applications, such as pharmaceuticals and organic electronics. CSP is challenging and computationally expensive due to the need to explore a large search space…

We have developed an efficient crystal structure prediction (CSP) method for desired chemical compositions, specifically suited for compounds featuring recurring molecules or rigid bodies. We applied this method to two metal chalcogenides:…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Qi Zhang , Amitava Choudhury , Aleksandr Chernatynskiy

Machine learning has the potential to accelerate materials discovery by accurately predicting materials properties at a low computational cost. However, the model inputs remain a key stumbling block. Current methods typically use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Rhys E. A. Goodall , Alpha A. Lee

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is now increasingly used in the discovery of novel materials with applications in diverse industries. However, despite decades of developments, the problem is far from being solved. With the progress of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-13 Lai Wei , Qin Li , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Jianjun Hu

As with many parts of the natural sciences, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing the modeling of molecular crystals. However, challenges remain for the accurate and efficient calculation of sublimation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Flaviano Della Pia , Benjamin X. Shi , Venkat Kapil , Andrea Zen , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

In this paper, we'll hunt for ordered crystal structures that may be stable, and that would explain the brittleness of electrical steel. I.e we wish to find crystals with negative formation energy, if it turns out that these structures are…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Arthur Adriaens , Cedric Ooms , Corentin Mergny