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Accelerated materials discovery is an urgent demand to drive advancements in fields such as energy conversion, storage, and catalysis. Property-directed generative design has emerged as a transformative approach for rapidly discovering new…

Generative models are revolutionizing materials discovery by enabling inverse design-direct generation of structures from desired properties. However, existing approaches often struggle to ensure inherent stability and symmetry while…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-28 Zhilong Song , Chongyi Ling , Qiang Li , Qionghua Zhou , Jinlan Wang

Crystal structure generation is a foundational challenge in materials discovery, particularly in designing functional inorganic crystalline materials with desired properties. Most existing diffusion-based generative models for crystals rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Sourav Mal , Subhankar Mishra , Prasenjit Sen

As in many other fields, the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping materials discovery by offering new ways to propose crystal structures and, in some cases, even predict desired properties. This review provides a…

Developing new metal hydrides is a critical step toward efficient hydrogen storage in carbon-neutral energy systems. However, existing materials databases, such as the Materials Project, contain a limited number of well-characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiyuan Liu , Christian Hacker , Shengnian Wang , Yuhua Duan

A wide range of synthesized crystalline inorganic materials exhibit compositional disorder, where multiple atomic species partially occupy the same crystallographic site. As a result, the physical and chemical properties of such materials…

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

A significant development towards inverse design of materials with well-defined target properties is reported. A deep generative model based on variational autoencoder (VAE), conditioned simultaneously by two target properties, is developed…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-23 Sourav Mal , Gaurav Seal , Prasenjit Sen

A major challenge in materials design is how to efficiently search the vast chemical design space to find the materials with desired properties. One effective strategy is to develop sampling algorithms that can exploit both explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yabo Dan , Yong Zhao , Xiang Li , Shaobo Li , Ming Hu , Jianjun Hu

With the rapid advancement of AI technologies, generative models have been increasingly employed in the exploration of novel materials. By integrating traditional computational approaches such as density functional theory (DFT) and…

In materials science, the challenge of rapid prototyping materials with desired properties often involves extensive experimentation to find suitable microstructures. Additionally, finding microstructures for given properties is typically an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Sébastien Bompas , Stefan Sandfeld

Discovering functional crystalline materials entails navigating an immense combinatorial design space. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the sampling of chemically plausible compositions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hyunsoo Park , Aron Walsh

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have wide applications in superconductors, quantum, and topological materials. However, their rational design is not well established, and currently less than 6,000 experimentally synthesized 2D materials have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Rongzhi Dong , Yuqi Song , Edirisuriya M. D. Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

We present Materium: an autoregressive transformer for generating crystal structures that converts 3D material representations into token sequences. These sequences include elements with oxidation states, fractional coordinates and lattice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Niklas Dobberstein , Jan Hamaekers

Advances in generative artificial intelligence are transforming how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are designed and discovered. This Perspective introduces the shift from laborious enumeration of MOF candidates to generative approaches…

Generative artificial intelligence offers a promising avenue for materials discovery, yet its advantages over traditional methods remain unclear. In this work, we introduce and benchmark two baseline approaches - random enumeration of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-02 Nathan J. Szymanski , Christopher J. Bartel

The discovery of novel solid-state materials, such as electrocatalysts, super-ionic conductors, or photovoltaic materials, plays a critical role in addressing various global challenges. It has, for instance, the potential to significantly…

Direct prediction of material properties from microstructures through statistical models has shown to be a potential approach to accelerating computational material design with large design spaces. However, statistical modeling of highly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Ruijin Cang , Hechao Li , Hope Yao , Yang Jiao , Yi Ren

Generative design marks a significant data-driven advancement in the exploration of novel inorganic materials, which entails learning the symmetry equivalent to the crystal structure prediction (CSP) task and subsequent learning of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Ruiming Zhu , Wei Nong , Shuya Yamazaki , Kedar Hippalgaonkar

Generative machine learning (ML) models hold great promise for accelerating materials discovery through the inverse design of inorganic crystals, enabling an unprecedented exploration of chemical space. Yet, the lack of standardized…