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Inverse design of inorganic crystals, in which structures are generated to satisfy a target property while preserving diversity and physical plausibility, remains more demanding than ab initio generation, as property conditioning can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Ibuki Okuda , Izumi Takahara , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

Inverse design of solid-state materials with desired properties represents a formidable challenge in materials science. Although recent generative models have demonstrated potential, their adoption has been hindered by limitations such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Yan Chen , Xueru Wang , Xiaobin Deng , Yilun Liu , Xi Chen , Yunwei Zhang , Lei Wang , Hang Xiao

Magnonic crystals (MCs) are emerging spintronic metamaterials capable of manipulating transmission properties of magnons, the quanta of spin waves. Due to the complex relationship between lattice geometry and magnonic band dispersion, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Ryunosuke Nagaoka , Takahiro Yamazaki , Chiharu Mitsumata , Yuma Iwasaki , Masato Kotsugi

Inverse design can be a useful strategy for discovering interactions that drive particles to spontaneously self-assemble into a desired structure. Here, we extend an inverse design methodology--relative entropy optimization--to determine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-16 William D. Piñeros , Beth A. Lindquist , Ryan B. Jadrich , Thomas M. Truskett

Generative models show great promise for the inverse design of molecules and inorganic crystals, but remain largely ineffective within more complex structures such as amorphous materials. Here, we present a diffusion model that reliably…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-21 Kai Yang , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

Multishape metamaterials exhibit more than one target shape change, e.g. the same metamaterial can have either a positive or negative Poisson's ratio. So far, multishape metamaterials have mostly been obtained by trial-and-error. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-25 David M. J. Dykstra , Corentin Coulais

Mechanical metamaterials enable precise control over structural properties, but their design method remains challenging due to their complex structure. Although additive manufacturing has expanded geometric freedom, navigating this vast and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 Kijung Kim , Seungwook Hong , Wonjun Jung , Wooseok Kim , Namjung Kim , Howon Lee

When a sample's X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD) is measured, the corresponding crystal structure is usually determined by searching for similar XRD patterns in the database. However, if a similar XRD pattern is not found, it is tremendously…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Joohwi Lee , Junpei Oba , Nobuko Ohba , Seiji Kajita

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

Discovering functional crystalline materials through computational methods remains a formidable challenge in materials science. Here, we introduce VQCrystal, an innovative deep learning framework that leverages discrete latent…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-11 ZiJie Qiu , Luozhijie Jin , Zijian Du , Hongyu Chen , Yan Cen , Siqi Sun , Yongfeng Mei , Hao Zhang

Optimizing the synthesis of zeolites and exploring novel frameworks offer pivotal opportunities and challenges in materials design. While inverse design proves highly effective for simpler crystals, its application to intricate structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-19 Chaohong Wang , Alberto Pérez de Alba Ortíz , Marjolein Dijkstra

The research of metamaterials has achieved enormous success in the manipulation of light in an artificially prescribed manner using delicately designed sub-wavelength structures, so-called meta-atoms. Even though modern numerical methods…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wei Ma , Feng Cheng , Yihao Xu , Qinlong Wen , Yongmin Liu

Inverse design of morphing slender structures with programmable curvature has significant applications in various engineering fields. Most existing studies formulate it as an optimization problem, which requires repeatedly solving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-28 JiaHao Li , Weicheng Huang , YinBo Zhu , Luxia Yu , Xiaohao Sun , Mingchao Liu , HengAn Wu

In materials science, microstructures and their associated extrinsic properties are critical for engineering advanced structural and functional materials, yet their robust reconstruction and generation remain significant challenges. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Yixuan Zhang , Teng Long , Hongbin Zhang

Materials play a critical role in various technological applications. Identifying and enumerating stable compounds, those near the convex hull, is therefore essential. Despite recent progress, generative models either have a relatively low…

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that manipulate electromagnetic waves, having optical properties absent in natural materials. Recently, machine learning for the inverse design of metamaterials has drawn attention.…

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

Diffusion models promise to accelerate material design by directly generating novel structures with desired properties, but existing approaches typically require expensive and substantial labeled data ($>$10,000) and lack adaptability. Here…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Junwu Chen , Jeff Guo , Edvin Fako , Philippe Schwaller

Finding new superconductors with a high critical temperature ($T_c$) has been a challenging task due to computational and experimental costs. We present a diffusion model inspired by the computer vision community to generate new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-28 Daniel Wines , Tian Xie , Kamal Choudhary

Composite materials often exhibit mechanical anisotropy owing to the material properties or geometrical configurations of the microstructure. This makes their inverse design a two-fold problem. First, we must learn the type and orientation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Asghar A. Jadoon , Karl A. Kalina , Manuel K. Rausch , Reese Jones , Jan N. Fuhg