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The discovery of advanced materials is the cornerstone of human technological development and progress. The structures of materials and their corresponding properties are essentially the result of a complex interplay of multiple degrees of…

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Thin films are ubiquitous in modern technology and highly useful in materials discovery and design. For achieving optimal extrinsic properties their microstructure needs to be controlled in a multi-parameter space, which usually requires a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Lars Banko , Yury Lysogorskiy , Dario Grochla , Dennis Naujoks , Ralf Drautz , Alfred Ludwig

Inverse materials design has proven successful in accelerating novel material discovery. Many inverse materials design methods use unsupervised learning where a latent space is learned to offer a compact description of materials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Cheng Zeng , Zulqarnain Khan , Nathan L. Post

Colloidal self-assembly -- the spontaneous organization of colloids into ordered structures -- has been considered key to produce next-generation materials. However, the present-day staggering variety of colloidal building blocks and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-29 Gabriele Maria Coli , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra

The rational design of molecules with desired properties is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Generative neural networks have emerged as a powerful approach to sample novel molecules from a learned distribution. Here, we propose a…

The synthesis of a metasurface exhibiting a specific set of desired scattering properties is a time-consuming and resource-demanding process, which conventionally relies on many cycles of full-wave simulations. It requires an experienced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

Deep learning has emerged as a key tool for designing nanophotonic structures that manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales. We investigate how to inversely design plasmonic nanostructures using conditional generative adversarial networks.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-21 Petter Persson , Nils Henriksson , Nicolò Maccaferri

Stochastic microstructure reconstruction has become an indispensable part of computational materials science, but ongoing developments are specific to particular material systems. In this paper, we address this generality problem by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Xiaolin Li , Yichi Zhang , He Zhao , Craig Burkhart , L Catherine Brinson , Wei Chen

Machine learning (ML) is emerging as a transformative tool for the design of architected materials, offering properties that far surpass those achievable through lab-based trial-and-error methods. However, a major challenge in current…

The ultimate aim of the study is to explore the inverse design of porous metamaterials using a deep learning-based generative framework. Specifically, we develop a property-variational autoencoder (pVAE), a variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Phu Thien Nguyen , Yousef Heider , Dennis M. Kochmann , Fadi Aldakheel

In materials science, the challenge of rapid prototyping materials with desired properties often involves extensive experimentation to find suitable microstructures. Additionally, finding microstructures for given properties is typically an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Sébastien Bompas , Stefan Sandfeld

Generative models have recently shown great promise for accelerating the design and discovery of new functional materials. Conditional generation enhances this capacity by allowing inverse design, where specific desired properties can be…

Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are ushering in a new age of automation, as machines match or outperform human performance. Machine intelligence can enable businesses to improve performance by reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Oshin Olesegun , Ryan Noraas , Michael Giering , Nagendra Somanath

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

The design of molecules and materials with tailored properties is challenging, as candidate molecules must satisfy multiple competing requirements that are often difficult to measure or compute. While molecular structures, produced through…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Julia Westermayr , Joe Gilkes , Rhyan Barrett , Reinhard J. Maurer

Realizing general inverse design could greatly accelerate the discovery of new materials with user-defined properties. However, state-of-the-art generative models tend to be limited to a specific composition or crystal structure. Herein, we…

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

The aim of the inverse chemical design is to develop new molecules with given optimized molecular properties or objectives. Recently, generative deep learning (DL) networks are considered as the state-of-the-art in inverse chemical design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haoran Wei , Mariefel Olarte , Garrett B. Goh

Metamaterials are emerging as a new paradigmatic material system to render unprecedented and tailorable properties for a wide variety of engineering applications. However, the inverse design of metamaterial and its multiscale system is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Liwei Wang , Yu-Chin Chan , Faez Ahmed , Zhao Liu , Ping Zhu , Wei Chen

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