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We study Crystal Structure Prediction, one of the major problems in computational chemistry. This is essentially a continuous optimization problem, where many different, simple and sophisticated, methods have been proposed and applied. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Dmytro Antypov , Argyrios Deligkas , Vladimir Gusev , Matthew J. Rosseinsky , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

In crystallography, a structure is typically represented by the arrangement of atoms in the direct space. Furthermore, space group symmetry and Wyckoff site notations are applied to characterize crystal structures with only a few variables.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Osman Goni Ridwan , Hongfei Xue , Youxing Chen , Harish Cherukuri , Qiang Zhu

The application of generative models in crystal structure prediction (CSP) has gained significant attention. Conditional generation--particularly the generation of crystal structures with specified stability or other physical properties has…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Takanori Ishii , Kaoru Hisama , Kohei Shinohara

For a very long time, computational approaches to the design of new materials have relied on an iterative process of finding a candidate material and modeling its properties. AI has played a crucial role in this regard, helping to…

Crystal property prediction is a crucial aspect of developing novel materials. However, there are two technical challenges to be addressed for speeding up the investigation of crystals. First, labeling crystal properties is intrinsically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Haomin Yu , Yanru Song , Jilin Hu , Chenjuan Guo , Bin Yang

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

Crystalline structure prediction is an essential prerequisite for designing materials with targeted properties. Yet, it is still an open challenge in materials design and drug discovery. Despite recent advances in computational materials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Emmanuel Jehanno , Romain Menegaux , Julien Mairal , Sergei Grudinin

Polymorphism, the ability of a compound to crystallize in multiple distinct structures, plays a vital role in determining the physical, chemical, and functional properties of materials. Accurate identification and prediction of polymorphic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-15 Sourin Dey , Nicholas Miklaucic , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qinyang Li , Nihang Fu , Jianjun Hu

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…

Determining crystal structures from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) has been a significant challenge in materials science, particularly when experimental data contain noise or the target structure has a high complexity. While recent AI…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Kaixiang Su , Osman Goni Ridwan , Hongfei Xue , Qiang Zhu

Crystal structure generation is fundamental to materials science, enabling the discovery of novel materials with desired properties. While existing approaches leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) through extensive fine-tuning on materials…

The ionic bonding across the lattice and ordered microscopic structures endow crystals with unique symmetry and determine their macroscopic properties. Unconventional crystals, in particular, exhibit non-traditional lattice structures or…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-04 Hongyi Wang , Ji Sun , Jinzhe Liang , Li Zhai , Zitian Tang , Zijian Li , Wei Zhai , Xusheng Wang , Weihao Gao , Sheng Gong

We have developed a software package CALYPSO (Crystal structure AnaLYsis by Particle Swarm Optimization) to predict the energetically stable/metastable crystal structures of materials at given chemical compositions and external conditions…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , 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

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…

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) -- the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based only on its molecular composition. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Andrew Wildman , Rodrigo Wang , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

The design of crystal materials plays a critical role in areas such as new energy development, biomedical engineering, and semiconductors. Recent advances in data-driven methods have enabled the generation of diverse crystal structures.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chao Huang , Jiahui Chen , Chen Chen , Chen Chen , Chunyan Chen , Renjie Su , Shiyu Du

We introduce a computational method to optimize target physical properties in the full configuration space regarding atomic composition, chemical stoichiometry, and crystal structure. The approach combines the universal potential of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Guanjian Cheng , Xin-Gao Gong , Wan-Jian Yin

New crystal structures are frequently derived by performing ionic substitutions on known crystal structures. These derived structures are then used in further experimental analysis, or as the initial guess for structural optimization in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-23 Iek-Heng Chu , Sayan Roychowdhury , Daehui Han , Anubhav Jain , Shyue Ping Ong

Crystal structure prediction is a fundamental problem in materials science. We present CrystalFormer-CSP, an efficient framework that unifies data-driven heuristic and physics-driven optimization approaches to predict stable crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhendong Cao , Shigang Ou , Lei Wang