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Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are materials with a high degree of porosity that can be used for applications in energy storage, water desalination, gas storage, and gas separation. However, the chemical space of MOFs is close to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhonglin Cao , Rishikesh Magar , Yuyang Wang , Amir Barati Farimani

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

We present a three-dimensional foundation model for polycrystalline materials based on a masked autoencoder trained via large-scale self-supervised learning. The model is pretrained on $100{,}000$ voxelized synthetic face-centered cubic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ting-Ju Wei , Chuin-Shan Chen

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is now increasingly used in discovering novel materials with applications in diverse industries. However, despite decades of developments and significant progress in this area, there lacks a set of…

Atomistic simulations generate large volumes of noisy structural data, yet extracting phase labels and continuous order parameters (OPs) in a robust and general manner remains challenging. Existing tools are often specialized to a limited…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-12 Hyuna Kwon , Babak Sadigh , Sebastien Hamel , Vincenzo Lordi , John Klepeis , Fei Zhou

A very active area of materials research is to devise methods that use machine learning to automatically extract predictive models from existing materials data. While prior examples have demonstrated successful models for some applications,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-29 Logan Ward , Ankit Agrawal , Alok Choudhary , Christopher Wolverton

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has emerged as one of the most important approaches for discovering new materials. CSP algorithms based on evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization have discovered a great number of new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Discovering materials with new structural chemistry is key to achieving transformative functionality. Generative artificial intelligence offers a scalable route to propose candidate crystal structures. We introduce a reliable low-cost proxy…

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

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Keqiang Yan , Cong Fu , Xiaofeng Qian , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji

The discovery of inorganic crystal structures with targeted properties is a significant challenge in materials science. Generative models, especially state-of-the-art diffusion models, offer the promise of modeling complex data…

Analysis of XRD diffraction patterns is one of the keystones of materials science and materials research. With the advancement of data-driven methods for materials design, candidate materials can be quickly screened for the study of a…

Methods for automatic chemical retrosynthesis have found recent success through the application of models traditionally built for natural language processing, primarily through transformer neural networks. These models have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sean Current , Ziqi Chen , Daniel Adu-Ampratwum , Xia Ning , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Crystalline materials, with symmetrical and periodic structures, exhibit a wide spectrum of properties and have been widely used in numerous applications across electronics, energy, and beyond. For crystalline materials discovery,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhenzhong Wang , Haowei Hua , Wanyu Lin , Ming Yang , Kay Chen Tan

Inorganic crystal materials have broad application potential due to excellent physical and chemical properties, with elastic properties (shear modulus, bulk modulus) crucial for predicting materials' electrical conductivity, thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-07 Yujie Liu , Zhenyu Wang , Hang Lei , Guoyu Zhang , Jiawei Xian , Zhibin Gao , Jun Sun , Haifeng Song , Xiangdong Ding

We have developed a software package CALYPSO (Crystal structure AnaLYsis by Particle Swarm Optimization) to predict the energetically stable/metastable crystal structures of materials at given chemical compositions and external conditions…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , Yanming Ma

Organic molecular crystals underpin technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals to organic electronics, yet predicting solid-state packing of molecules remains challenging because candidate generation is combinatorial and stability is only…

Phase-Field Crystal (PFC) models are able to resolve atomic length scale features of materials during temporal evolution over diffusive time scales. Traditional PFC models contain solid and liquid phases, however many important materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Edwin J. Schwalbach , James A. Warren , Kuo-An Wu , Peter W. Voorhees

This work presents a machine learning approach to predict peak-stress clusters in heterogeneous polycrystalline materials. Prior work on using machine learning in the context of mechanics has largely focused on predicting the effective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Ankit Shrivastava , Jingxiao Liu , Kaushik Dayal , Hae Young Noh

Predicting and characterizing the crystal structure of materials is a key problem in materials research and development. It is typically addressed with highly accurate quantum mechanical computations on a small set of candidate structures,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefano Curtarolo , Dane Morgan , Kristin Persson , John Rodgers , Gerbrand Ceder