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Geometric information such as the space groups and crystal systems plays an important role in the properties of crystal materials. Prediction of crystal system and space group thus has wide applications in crystal material property…

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Predicting which hypothetical inorganic crystals can be experimentally realized remains a central challenge in accelerating materials discovery. SyntheFormer is a positive-unlabeled framework that learns synthesizability directly from…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Danial Ebrahimzadeh , Sarah Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

Computational prediction of stable crystal structures has a profound impact on the large-scale discovery of novel functional materials. However, predicting the crystal structure solely from a material's composition or formula is a promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Yuqi Song , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qin Li , Jianjun Hu

Crystal structure prototype data have become a useful source of information for materials discovery in the fields of crystallography, chemistry, physics, and materials science. This work reports the development of a robust and efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Chuanxun Su , Jian Lv , Quan Li , Hui Wang , Lijun Zhang , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Molecules can form myriad crystalline polymorphs, each with distinct properties affecting their performance across diverse applications, from pharmaceuticals to functional materials and more. Predicting the thermodynamically most stable…

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

Structural prediction for the discovery of novel materials is a long sought after goal of computational physics and materials sciences. The success is rather limited for methods such as the simulated annealing method (SA) that require…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Chuannan Li , Hanpu Liang , Yifeng Duan , Zijing Lin

This study presents a deep learning approach to predicting structural and electronic properties of materials using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Leveraging data from the Materials Project database, we construct graph representations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-20 Selva Chandrasekaran Selvaraj

In addressing the challenge of Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP), symmetry-aware deep learning models, particularly diffusion models, have been extensively studied, which treat CSP as a conditional generation task. However, ensuring…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-09 Peijia Lin , Pin Chen , Rui Jiao , Qing Mo , Jianhuan Cen , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu , Dan Huang , Yutong Lu

Entropy alone can self-assemble hard particles into colloidal crystals of remarkable complexity whose structures are the same as atomic and molecular crystals, but with larger lattice spacings. Although particle-based molecular simulation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-06 Thi Vo , Sharon C. Glotzer

Developing fast and accurate methods to discover intermetallic compounds is relevant for alloy design. While density-functional-theory (DFT)-based methods have accelerated design of binary and ternary alloys by providing rapid access to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Zhaohan Zhang , Mu Li , Katharine Flores , Rohan Mishra

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the generation of realistic data by training generative models on large datasets of text, images, and audio. While these models have demonstrated exceptional performance in generating novel and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-17 Izumi Takahara , Kiyou Shibata , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

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

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Dario Massa , Daniel Cieśliński , Amirhossein Naghdi , Stefanos Papanikolaou

Machine learning has emerged as a novel tool for the efficient prediction of materials properties, and claims have been made that machine-learned models for the formation energy of compounds can approach the accuracy of Density Functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-14 Christopher J. Bartel , Amalie Trewartha , Qi Wang , Alexander Dunn , Anubhav Jain , Gerbrand Ceder

The combination of deep learning algorithm and materials science has made significant progress in predicting novel materials and understanding various behaviours of materials. Here, we introduced a new model called as the Crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Zijian Du , Luozhijie Jin , Le Shu , Yan Cen , Yuanfeng Xu , Yongfeng Mei , Hao Zhang

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

Computational materials discovery relies on the generation of plausible crystal structures. The plausibility is typically judged through density functional theory methods which, while typically accurate at zero Kelvin, often favor…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Thorben Prein , Willis O'Leary , Aikaterini Flessa Savvidou , Elchaïma Bourneix , Joonatan E. M. Laulainen

High-throughput density-functional calculations of solids are extremely time consuming. As an alternative, we here propose a machine learning approach for the fast prediction of solid-state properties. To achieve this, LSDA calculations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-23 K. T. Schütt , H. Glawe , F. Brockherde , A. Sanna , K. R. Müller , E. K. U. Gross

Machine learning has revolutionized many fields, including materials science. However, predicting properties of crystalline materials using machine learning faces challenges in input encoding, output versatility, and interpretability. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-22 Haosheng Xu , Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang