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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…

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Metamaterials are artificially engineered devices that go beyond the properties of conventional materials in nature. Metamaterials allow the creation of negative refractive indexes, light trapping with epsilon-near-zero compounds, bandgap…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Antonio Alex-Amor , Angel Palomares-Caballero , Carlos Molero

The ability to readily design novel materials with chosen functional properties on-demand represents a next frontier in materials discovery. However, thoroughly and efficiently sampling the entire design space in a computationally tractable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang , Guoxiang Hu , P. Ganesh , Bobby G. Sumpter

Inverse design problems are common in engineering and materials science. The forward direction, i.e., computing output quantities from design parameters, typically requires running a numerical simulation, such as a FEM, as an intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jens U. Kreber , Christian Weißenfels , Joerg Stueckler

The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Andrew Lininger , Michael Hinczewski , Giuseppe Strangi

Generative artificial intelligence offers a new paradigm to design matter in high-dimensional spaces. However, its underlying mechanisms remain difficult to interpret and limit adoption in computational mechanics. This gap is striking…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Vahidullah Tac , Ellen Kuhl

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

Metamaterials are composite structures whose properties arise from a mesoscale organization of their constituents. Provided this organization occurs on scales smaller than the characteristic lengths associated with their response, it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-03 Prateek Sehgal , Meera Ramaswamy , Edward Y. X. Ong , Christopher Ness , Itai Cohen , Brian J. Kirby

In this paper, we introduce a denoising diffusion algorithm to discover microstructures with nonlinear fine-tuned properties. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are generative models that use diffusion-based dynamics to gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nikolaos N. Vlassis , WaiChing Sun

In this study, we develop a conditional diffusion model that proposes the optimal process parameters and predicts the microstructure for the desired mechanical properties. In materials development, it is costly to try many samples with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Arisa Ikeda , Ryo Higuchi , Tomohiro Yokozeki , Katsuhiro Endo , Yuta Kojima , Misato Suzuki , Mayu Muramatsu

Practical applications of mechanical metamaterials often involve solving inverse problems where the objective is to find the (multiple) microarchitectures that give rise to a given set of properties. The limited resolution of additive…

Disordered (amorphous) materials, such as glasses, are emerging as promising candidates for applications within energy storage, nonlinear optics, and catalysis. Their lack of long-range order and complex short- and medium-range orderings,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Jonas A. Finkler , Yan Lin , Tao Du , Jilin Hu , Morten M. Smedskjaer

Interior design is a complex and creative discipline involving aesthetics, functionality, ergonomics, and materials science. Effective solutions must meet diverse requirements, typically producing multiple deliverables such as renderings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuxuan Yang , Tao Geng

Functional soft materials, comprising colloidal and molecular building blocks that self-organize into complex structures as a result of their tunable interactions, enable a wide array of technological applications. Inverse methods provide…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-13 Zachary M. Sherman , Michael P. Howard , Beth A. Lindquist , Ryan B. Jadrich , Thomas M. Truskett

Materials-by-design has been historically challenging due to complex process-microstructure-property relations. Conventional analytical or simulation-based approaches suffer from low accuracy or long computational time and poor…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Xiao Shang , Zhiying Liu , Jiahui Zhang , Tianyi Lyu , Yu Zou

The inverse design of metamaterial architectures presents a significant challenge, particularly for nonlinear mechanical properties involving large deformations, buckling, contact, and plasticity. Traditional methods, such as gradient-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qibang Liu , Seid Koric , Diab Abueidda , Hadi Meidani , Philippe Geubelle

Inverse design of metasurfaces for specific electromagnetic responses requires generating geometries that satisfy stringent spectral constraints while maintaining manufacturability. Conventional design methodologies rely on iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Vineetha Joy , Jamshed Palai , Satwik Sahoo , Anshuman Kumar , Amit Sethi , Hema Singh

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

The structural complexity of metamaterials is limitless, although in practice, most designs comprise periodic architectures which lead to materials with spatially homogeneous features. More advanced tasks, arising in e.g. soft robotics,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Corentin Coulais , Eial Teomy , Koen de Reus , Yair Shokef , Martin van Hecke

In an expansion of a previous study [1], we apply inverse design methods to produce two-dimensional plasma metamaterial devices with realistic plasma elements which incorporate quartz envelopes, collisionality (loss), non-uniform density…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Jesse A Rodriguez , Mark A. Cappelli