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Understanding structure-property relationships in materials is fundamental in condensed matter physics and materials science. Over the past few years, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool for advancing this understanding and…

Recent breakthroughs in machine learning and artificial intelligence, fueled by scientific data, are revolutionizing the discovery of new materials. Despite the wealth of existing scientific literature, the availability of both structured…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Mehrad Ansari , Jeffrey Watchorn , Carla E. Brown , Joseph S. Brown

Traditional design cycles for new materials and assemblies have two fundamental drawbacks. The underlying physical relationships are often too complex to be precisely calculated and described. Aside from that, many unknown uncertainties,…

Discovering new physical products and processes often demands enormous experimentation and expensive simulation. To design a new product with certain target characteristics, an extensive search is performed in the design space by trying out…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-16 Phuoc Nguyen , Truyen Tran , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh

High-throughput computational and experimental design of materials aided by machine learning have become an increasingly important field in material science. This area of research has emerged in leaps and bounds in the thermal sciences, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-17 Hang Zhang , Kedar Hippalgaonkar , Tonio Buonassisi , Ole M. Løvvik , Espen Sagvolden , Ding Ding

Since the surge of data in materials science research and the advancement in machine learning methods, an increasing number of researchers are introducing machine learning techniques into the next generation of materials discovery, ranging…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-12 Maya M. Martirossyan , Hongjin Du , Julia Dshemuchadse , Chrisy Xiyu Du

Generative artificial intelligence offers a new paradigm to design matter in high-dimensional spaces. However, its underlying mechanisms remain difficult to interpret and limit adoption in computational mechanics. This gap is striking…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Vahidullah Tac , Ellen Kuhl

Nuclear materials are often demanded to function for extended time in extreme environments, including high radiation fluxes and transmutation, high temperature and temperature gradients, stresses, and corrosive coolants. They also have a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-18 Dane Morgan , Ghanshyam Pilania , Adrien Couet , Blas P. Uberuaga , Cheng Sun , Ju Li

The recent decades have seen various attempts at accelerating the process of developing materials targeted towards specific applications. The performance required for a particular application leads to the choice of a particular material…

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

Mechanical metamaterials enable precise control over structural properties, but their design method remains challenging due to their complex structure. Although additive manufacturing has expanded geometric freedom, navigating this vast and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 Kijung Kim , Seungwook Hong , Wonjun Jung , Wooseok Kim , Namjung Kim , Howon Lee

Numerical simulations have revolutionized the industrial design process by reducing prototyping costs, design iterations, and enabling product engineers to explore the design space more efficiently. However, the growing scale of simulations…

Microstructural materials design is one of the most important applications of inverse modeling in materials science. Generally speaking, there are two broad modeling paradigms in scientific applications: forward and inverse. While the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Zijiang Yang , Dipendra Jha , Arindam Paul , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Ankit Agrawal

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming materials science, enabling both theoretical advancements and accelerated materials discovery. Recent progress in crystal generation models, which design crystal structures for targeted…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Zhuoyuan Li , Siyu Liu , Beilin Ye , David J. Srolovitz , Tongqi Wen

We investigate the construction of generative models capable of encoding physical constraints that can be hard to express explicitly. For the problem of inverse material design, where one seeks to design a material with a prescribed set of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-17 Khalid El-Awady

Novel technologies and new materials are in high demand for future energy-efficient electronic devices to overcome the fundamental limitations of miniaturization of current silicon-based devices. Two-dimensional (2D) materials show…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Lei Shen , Jun Zhou , Tong Yang , Ming Yang , Yuan Ping Feng

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

Diffusion models promise to accelerate material design by directly generating novel structures with desired properties, but existing approaches typically require expensive and substantial labeled data ($>$10,000) and lack adaptability. Here…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Junwu Chen , Jeff Guo , Edvin Fako , Philippe Schwaller

Deep learning in the context of nano-photonics is mostly discussed in terms of its potential for inverse design of photonic devices or nanostructures. Many of the recent works on machine-learning inverse design are highly specific, and the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-03 Peter R. Wiecha , Arnaud Arbouet , Christian Girard , Otto L. Muskens

The transformation towards renewable energy and feedstock supply in the chemical industry requires new conceptual process design approaches. Recently, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence offer opportunities to accelerate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Qinghe Gao , Artur M. Schweidtmann