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In recent times, the use of machine learning in materials design and discovery has aided to accelerate the discovery of innovative materials with extraordinary properties, which otherwise would have been driven by a laborious and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Md Mohaiminul Islam

Experimentally obtained X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns can be difficult to solve, precluding the full characterization of materials, pharmaceuticals, and geological compounds. Herein, we propose a method based upon a multi-objective…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Stefano Racioppi , Alberto Otero De la Roza , Samad Hajinazar , Eva Zurek

Generative models hold the promise of significantly expediting the materials design process when compared to traditional human-guided or rule-based methodologies. However, effectively generating high-quality periodic structures of materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Anshuman Sinha , Shuyi Jia , Victor Fung

Crystal symmetry plays a fundamental role in determining its physical, chemical, and electronic properties such as electrical and thermal conductivity, optical and polarization behavior, and mechanical strength. Almost all known crystalline…

Efficient heuristics have predicted many functional materials such as high-temperature superconducting hydrides, while inorganic structural chemistry explains why and how the crystal structures are stabilized. Here we develop the paired…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-07 Ryotaro Koshoji , Taisuke Ozaki

Material properties controlled by evolving defect structures, such as mechanical response, often involve processes spanning many length and time scales which cannot be modeled using a single approach. We present a variety of new results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Joel Berry , Nikolas Provatas , Jörg Rottler , Chad W. Sinclair

The use of machine learning methods for accelerating the design of crystalline materials usually requires manually constructed feature vectors or complex transformation of atom coordinates to input the crystal structure, which either…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-10 Tian Xie , Jeffrey C. Grossman

Understanding plastic deformation of crystals in terms of the fundamental physics of dislocations has remained a grand challenge in materials science for decades. To overcome this, the Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (DDD) method has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-03 Nicolas Bertin , Wei Cai , Sylvie Aubry , Athanasios Arsenlis , Vasily V. Bulatov

Crystal structures can be viewed as assemblies of space-filling polyhedra, which play a critical role in determining material properties such as ionic conductivity and dielectric constant. However, most conventional crystal structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Tomoyasu Yokoyama , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Hisashi Naito

High-pressure research is a productive route to new structures and emergent properties. However, crucial high-pressure structural information remains highly fragmented across individual publications and heterogeneous computational…

Crystalline materials are a fundamental component in next-generation technologies, yet modeling their distribution presents unique computational challenges. Of the plausible arrangements of atoms in a periodic lattice only a vanishingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Benjamin Kurt Miller , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Anuroop Sriram , Brandon M Wood

This paper develops a new continuous approach to a similarity between periodic lattices of ideal crystals. Quantifying a similarity between crystal structures is needed to substantially speed up the Crystal Structure Prediction, because the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Marco Michele Mosca , Vitaliy Kurlin

Determination of crystal structures of nanocrystalline or amorphous compounds is a great challenge in solid states chemistry and physics. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of X-Ray or neutron total scattering data has proven to be a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Magnus Kløve , Sanna Sommer , Bo B. Iversen , Bjørk Hammer , Wilke Dononelli

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

A fast, parallel algorithm for distant-dependent calculation and simulation of crystal properties is presented along with speedup results and methods of application. An illustrative example is used to compute the Lennard-Jones lattice…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-18 Matthew Stein

Generative models have achieved impressive results in many domains including image and text generation. In the natural sciences, generative models have led to rapid progress in automated drug discovery. Many of the current methods focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jordan Hoffmann , Louis Maestrati , Yoshihide Sawada , Jian Tang , Jean Michel Sellier , Yoshua Bengio

Efficient algorithms to generate candidate crystal structures with good stability properties can play a key role in data-driven materials discovery. Here we show that a crystal diffusion variational autoencoder (CDVAE) is capable of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-18 Peder Lyngby , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

Crystal structure forms the foundation for understanding the physical and chemical properties of materials. Generative models have emerged as a new paradigm in crystal structure prediction(CSP), however, accurately capturing key…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Ziyi Chen , Yang Yuan , Siming Zheng , Jialong Guo , Sihan Liang , Yangang Wang , Zongguo Wang

The task of deducing three-dimensional molecular configurations from their two-dimensional graph representations holds paramount importance in the fields of computational chemistry and pharmaceutical development. The rapid advancement of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Bobin Yang , Jie Deng , Zhenghan Chen , Ruoxue Wu

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