English
Related papers

Related papers: VQCrystal: Leveraging Vector Quantization for Disc…

200 papers

Despite an artificial intelligence-assisted modeling of disordered crystals is a widely used and well-tried method of new materials design, the issues of its robustness, reliability, and stability are still not resolved and even not…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Fedor S. Avilov , Roman A. Eremin , Semen A. Budennyy , Innokentiy S. Humonen

Developing inverse design methods for functional materials with specific properties is critical to advancing fields like renewable energy, catalysis, energy storage, and carbon capture. Generative models based on diffusion principles can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Qi Han , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Hao Sun , Zhong-Yi Lu

We develop and test new machine learning strategies for accelerating molecular crystal structure ranking and crystal property prediction using tools from geometric deep learning on molecular graphs. Leveraging developments in graph-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Michael Kilgour , Jutta Rogal , Mark Tuckerman

While machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) accelerate phonon dispersion calculations, merely identifying dynamical instabilities in computationally predicted materials is insufficient; automated pathways to resolve them are…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-01 Rogério Almeida Gouvêa , Gian-Marco Rignanese

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…

Accurate determination of crystal structures is central to materials science, underpinning the understanding of composition-structure-property relationships and the discovery of new materials. Powder X-ray diffraction is a key technique in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Chenlei Xu , Tianhao Su , Jie Xiong , Yue Wu , Shuya Dong , Tian Jiang , Mengwei He , Shuai Chen , Tong-Yi Zhang

Atomic-level modeling performed at large scales enables the investigation of mesoscale materials properties with atom-by-atom resolution. The spatial complexity of such cross-scale simulations renders them unsuitable for simple human visual…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Heejung Chung , Rodrigo Freitas , Gowoon Cheon , Evan J. Reed

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming materials science, enabling both theoretical advancements and accelerated materials discovery. Recent progress in crystal generation models, which design crystal structures for targeted…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Zhuoyuan Li , Siyu Liu , Beilin Ye , David J. Srolovitz , Tongqi Wen

Machine learning has revolutionized materials discovery, but data scarcity remains a critical bottleneck for complex functional properties. As emerging systems, two-dimensional (2D) materials possess limited overall data volumes. Evaluating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Huiyang Zhang , Xinyu Chen , Qionghua Zhou , Jinlan Wang

Crystal-graph attention networks have emerged recently as remarkable tools for the prediction of thermodynamic stability and materials properties from unrelaxed crystal structures. Previous networks trained on two million materials…

The discovery of novel substrate materials has been dominated by trial and error, opening the opportunity for a systematic search. To identify stable crystal surfaces, we generate bonding networks for materials from the Materials Project…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-31 Joshua T. Paul , Alice Galdi , Christopher Parzyck , Kyle Shen , Richard G. Hennig

Diffraction is the most common method to solve for unknown or partially known crystal structures. However, it remains a challenge to determine the crystal structure of a new material that may have nanoscale size or heterogeneities. Here we…

One of the long-standing problems in materials science is how to predict a material's structure and then its properties given only its composition. Experimental characterization of crystal structures has been widely used for structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-29 Rongzhi Dong , Yong Zhao , Yuqi Song , Nihang Fu , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Sourin Dey , Qinyang Li , Lai Wei , Jianjun Hu

We perform extensive density functional theory (DFT) calculations to determine the stability and elementary properties of 4249 previously unexplored monolayer crystals. The monolayers comprise the most stable subset (energy within 0.1…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-18 Peder Lyngby , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

The revolution in materials in the past century was built on a knowledge of the atomic arrangements and the structure-property relationship. The sine qua non for obtaining quantitative structural information is single crystal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Gabe Guo , Judah Goldfeder , Ling Lan , Aniv Ray , Albert Hanming Yang , Boyuan Chen , Simon JL Billinge , Hod Lipson

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…

Crystal structure determines properties of materials. With the crystal structure of a chemical substance, many physical and chemical properties can be predicted by first-principles calculations or machine learning models. Since it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Rongzhi Dong , Yuxin Li , Jianjun Hu

Understanding structure-property relationships in materials is fundamental in condensed matter physics and materials science. Over the past few years, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool for advancing this understanding and…

Exploring the vast composition space of multi-component alloys presents a challenging task for both \textit{ab initio} (first principles) and experimental methods due to the time-consuming procedures involved. This ultimately impedes the…

Fluid ferroelectrics, a recently discovered class of liquid crystals that exhibit switchable, long-range polar order, offer opportunities in ultrafast electro-optic technologies, responsive soft matter, and next-generation energy materials.…