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Stable or metastable crystal structures of assembled atoms can be predicted by finding the global or local minima of the energy surface within a broad space of atomic configurations. Generally, this requires repeated first-principles energy…

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…

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Machine learning has revolutionized many fields, including materials science. However, predicting properties of crystalline materials using machine learning faces challenges in input encoding, output versatility, and interpretability. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-22 Haosheng Xu , Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

The ability to reliably predict the structures and stabilities of a molecular crystal and its polymorphs without any prior experimental information would be an invaluable tool for a number of fields, with specific and immediate applications…

We report the development of a combined machine-learning and high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) framework to accelerate the search for new ferroelectric materials. The framework can predict potential ferroelectric compounds…

Reliable and robust methods of predicting the crystal structure of a compound, based only on its chemical composition, is crucial to the study of materials and their applications. Despite considerable ongoing research efforts, crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Qi-Jun Hong , Joseph Yasi , Axel van de Walle

The prediction of material structure from chemical composition has been a long-standing challenge in natural science. Although there have been various methodological developments and successes with computer simulations, the prediction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Naoto Tsujimoto , Daiki Adachi , Ryosuke Akashi , Synge Todo , Shinji Tsuneyuki

We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-18 A. R. Oganov , C. W. Glass

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

Crystal-structure phase mapping is a core, long-standing challenge in materials science that requires identifying crystal structures, or mixtures thereof, in synthesized materials. Materials science experts excel at solving simple systems…

Crystal structure prediction is one of the major unsolved problems in materials science. Traditionally, this problem is formulated as a global optimization problem for which global search algorithms are combined with first principle free…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-13 Jianjun Hu , Yong Zhao , Qin Li , Yuqi Song , Rongzhi Dong , Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya MD Siriwardane

The fundamental quantity governing the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of a crystalline solid is its electronic charge density. Yet, its direct use for the rapid prediction of materials properties remains challenging due to its high…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-11 Kammampati Sai Kumar , Albert Linda , Shubham Kumar Maurya , Somnath Bhowmick

Crystal structure prediction is a fundamental problem in materials science. We present CrystalFormer-CSP, an efficient framework that unifies data-driven heuristic and physics-driven optimization approaches to predict stable crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhendong Cao , Shigang Ou , Lei Wang

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…

Predicting the stability of crystals is one of the central problems in materials science. Today, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are the computational tool of choice to obtain energies of crystals with quantitative accuracy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Weike Ye , Chi Chen , Zhenbin Wang , Iek-Heng Chu , Shyue Ping Ong

The combination of deep learning algorithm and materials science has made significant progress in predicting novel materials and understanding various behaviours of materials. Here, we introduced a new model called as the Crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Zijian Du , Luozhijie Jin , Le Shu , Yan Cen , Yuanfeng Xu , Yongfeng Mei , Hao Zhang

Discovering new materials is a challenging task in materials science crucial to the progress of human society. Conventional approaches based on experiments and simulations are labor-intensive or costly with success heavily depending on…

Global optimization of crystal compositions is a significant yet computationally intensive method to identify stable structures within chemical space. The specific physical properties linked to a three-dimensional atomic arrangement make…

High-throughput density-functional calculations of solids are extremely time consuming. As an alternative, we here propose a machine learning approach for the fast prediction of solid-state properties. To achieve this, LSDA calculations are…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-23 K. T. Schütt , H. Glawe , F. Brockherde , A. Sanna , K. R. Müller , E. K. U. Gross

Crystal structure generation is fundamental to materials science, enabling the discovery of novel materials with desired properties. While existing approaches leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) through extensive fine-tuning on materials…