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Machine learning potentials have emerged as a means to enhance the accuracy of biomolecular simulations. However, their application is constrained by the significant computational cost arising from the vast number of parameters compared to…

Multi-component metal nanoparticles (NPs) are of paramount importance in the chemical industry, as most processes therein employ heterogeneous catalysts. While these multi-component systems have been shown to result in higher product…

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Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-03 James P. Horwath , Colin Lehman-Chong , Aleksandra Vojvodic , Eric A. Stach

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) provide near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy at reduced computational cost, but their reliability depends on representative training data and often deteriorates in transition-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ashique Lal , Rik S. Breebaart , Peter G. Bolhuis , Evert Jan Meijer

Nature is remarkably adept at using interfaces to build structures, encapsulate reagents, and regulate biological processes. Inspired by Nature, we describe flexible polymer-based ribbons, termed "mesoscale polymers" (MSPs), to modulate…

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Various data visualization applications such as reverse engineering and interactive authoring require a vocabulary that describes the structure of visualization scenes and the procedure to manipulate them. A few scene abstractions have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Zhicheng Liu , Chen Chen , John Hooker

This paper addresses the problem of active learning of a multi-output Gaussian process (MOGP) model representing multiple types of coexisting correlated environmental phenomena. In contrast to existing works, our active learning problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-25 Yehong Zhang , Trong Nghia Hoang , Kian Hsiang Low , Mohan Kankanhalli

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

We present a computational microscopy analysis (targeted molecular dynamics simulations) of the structure and performance of conductive metal organic framework (MOF) electrodes in supercapacitors with room temperature ionic liquids. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-24 Sheng Bi , Ming Chen , Runxi Wang , Jiamao Feng , Mircea Dinca , Alexei A. Kornyshev , Guang Feng

We introduce Markov Neural Processes (MNPs), a new class of Stochastic Processes (SPs) which are constructed by stacking sequences of neural parameterised Markov transition operators in function space. We prove that these Markov transition…

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We combine small angle scattering experiments and simulations to investigate the internal structure and interactions of composite Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Poly(ethylene glycol) (PNIPAM-PEG) microgels. At low temperatures the…

We present a monolithic mechanical metamaterial comprising a periodic arrangement of snapping units with tunable tensile behavior. Under tension, the metamaterial undergoes a large extension caused by sequential snap-through instabilities,…

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Characterizing conformational transitions in physical systems remains a fundamental challenge, as traditional sampling methods struggle with the high-dimensional nature of molecular systems and high-energy barriers between stable states.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Magnus Petersen , Gemma Roig , Roberto Covino

The electrostatic interaction between metal spheres is an influential component in the assembly of many nanoscale materials in chemistry. Here we derive a method to calculate the energy and polarizations of metal spheres in arbitrary…

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Chemical reaction mechanisms are the foundation of how chemists evaluate reactivity and feasibility, yet current Computer-Assisted Synthesis Planning (CASP) systems operate without this mechanistic reasoning. We introduce a computational…

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High velocity impact between crystalline surfaces is important for a range of material phenomena, yet a fundamental understanding of the effect of surface structure, energetics and kinetics on the underlying thermo-mechanical response…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-14 Zhenqi Yang , Sinan Muftu , Moneesh Upmanyu

An increasing variety of crystal structures has been observed in soft condensed matter over the past two decades, surpassing most expectations for the diversity of arrangements accessible through classical driving forces. Here, we survey…

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The use of magneto-optical techniques to tune the plasmonic response of nanostructures is a hot topic in active plasmonics, with fascinating implications for several plasmon-based applications and devices. For this emerging field, called…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-16 Alessio Gabbani , Gaia Petrucci , Francesco Pineider

There is an increasing interest in the amorphous states of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous coordination polymers, which can be produced by pressure-induced amorphization, temperature-induced amorphization, melt-quenching,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-20 Nicolas Castel , François-Xavier Coudert

We present an active learning framework for efficiently generating training data for machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs). The method combines local entropy-driven molecular dynamics with global dataset-aware filtering: a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Meiyan Wang , Rishi Rao , Li Zhu