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Crystal structures are characterized by atomic bases within a primitive unit cell that repeats along a regular lattice throughout 3D space. The periodic and infinite nature of crystals poses unique challenges for geometric graph…

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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

Inverse design of inorganic crystals, in which structures are generated to satisfy a target property while preserving diversity and physical plausibility, remains more demanding than ab initio generation, as property conditioning can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Ibuki Okuda , Izumi Takahara , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is particularly well-suited to determine the structure of molecules and materials in powdered form. Structure determination usually proceeds by finding the best match between experimentally…

Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction patterns is a complex challenge in materials science, often requiring extensive expertise and computational resources. This study introduces DiffractGPT, a generative pre-trained…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Kamal Choudhary

Metal oxyfluorides constitute a broad group of chemical compounds with rich spectrum of crystal structures and properties. Here we predict, based on evolutionary algorithm approach, the crystal structure and selected properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-28 Mateusz Domański , Wojciech Grochala

The robust and automated determination of crystal symmetry is of utmost importance in material characterization and analysis. Recent studies have shown that deep learning (DL) methods can effectively reveal the correlations between X-ray or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Leslie Ching Ow Tiong , Jeongrae Kim , Sang Soo Han , Donghun Kim

The identification of materials with exceptional properties is an essential objective to enable technological progress. We propose the application of \textit{Quality-Diversity} algorithms to the field of crystal structure prediction. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-07 Marta Wolinska , Aron Walsh , Antoine Cully

Determining crystal structures from X-ray diffraction data is fundamental across diverse scientific fields, yet remains a significant challenge when data is limited to low resolution. While recent deep learning models have made…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-22 Jiale Zhao , Cong Liu , Yuxuan Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Zhenyi Zhang , Shifeng Jin , Zhenyu Liu

A fundamental challenge in materials design is linking building block attributes to crystal structure. Addressing this challenge is particularly difficult for systems that exhibit emergent order, such as entropy-stabilized colloidal…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-22 Yina Geng , Greg van Anders , Sharon C. Glotzer

The increased time- and length-scale of classical molecular dynamics simulations have led to raw data flows surpassing storage capacities, necessitating on-the-fly integration of structural analysis algorithms. As a result, algorithms must…

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…

Materials property predictions have improved from advances in machine learning algorithms, delivering materials discoveries and novel insights through data-driven models of structure-property relationships. Nearly all available models rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Yiqun Wang , Xiao-Jie Zhang , Fei Xia , Elsa A. Olivetti , Ram Seshadri , James M. Rondinelli

Materials identification and structural understanding from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) data is a long-standing challenge in materials science, fundamental to discovering and characterizing novel materials. A prerequisite for full…

AMORPH utilizes a new Bayesian statistical approach to interpreting X-ray diffraction results of samples with both crystalline and amorphous components. AMORPH fits X-ray diffraction patterns with a mixture of narrow and wide components,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-08-15 Michael C. Rowe , Brendon J. Brewer

Organic molecular crystals are ideally placed to become next-generation piezoelectric materials due to their diverse chemistries that can be used to engineer tailor-made solid-state assemblies. Using crystal engineering principles, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-11 Shubham Vishnoi , Geetu Kumari , Robert Guest , Pierre-André Cazade , Sarah Guerin

Even though, the crystal structure of the intermediate (S') and the equilibrium S (Al2CuMg) phase were subject of many investigations by using mostly imaging or diffraction techniques, the results remain still controversial. In this study,…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-09 Danny Petschke , Frank Lotter , Torsten E. M. Staab

An algorithm for determining crystal structures from diffraction data is described which does not rely on the usual Fourier-space formulations of atomicity. The new algorithm implements atomicity constraints in real-space, as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Veit Elser

Lithium (Li) is a prototypical simple metal at ambient conditions, but exhibits remarkable changes in structural and electronic properties under compression. There has been intense debate about the structure of dense Li, and recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Xiaoyang Wang , Zhenyu Wang , Pengyue Gao , Chengqian Zhang , Jian Lv , Han Wang , Haifeng Liu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

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