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The discovery of materials with tailored properties is increasingly reliant on computational methods. However, the fragmented landscape of existing software often hinders the seamless integration of large-scale structure prediction with…
Atom probe tomography (APT) is ideally suited to characterize and understand the interplay of chemical segregation and microstructure in modern multicomponent materials. Yet, the quantitative analysis typically relies on human expertise to…
Even though thermodynamic energy-based crystal structure prediction (CSP) has revolutionized materials discovery, the energy-driven CSP approaches often struggle to identify experimentally realizable metastable materials synthesized through…
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Investigation of well-motivated parameter space in the theories of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) plays an important role in new physics discoveries. However, a large-scale exploration of models with multi-parameter or equivalent solutions…
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The development of complex functional materials poses a multi-objective optimization problem in a large multidimensional parameter space. Solving it requires reproducible, user independent laboratory work and intelligent preselection of…
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