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Propelled partly by the Materials Genome Initiative, and partly by the algorithmic developments and the resounding successes of data-driven efforts in other domains, informatics strategies are beginning to take shape within materials…

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This paper reviews the current state of the art in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications in the context of the creative industries. A brief background of AI, and specifically Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

The advent of two-dimensional metamaterials in recent years has ushered in a revolutionary means to manipulate the behavior of light on the nanoscale. The effective parameters of these architected materials render unprecedented control over…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zhaocheng Liu , Dayu Zhu , Sean P. Rodrigues , Kyu-Tae Lee , Wenshan Cai

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in accelerated materials innovation in the context of the process-structure-property chain. In this regard, it is essential to take into account manufacturing processes and tailor materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-12 Lukas Morand , Tarek Iraki , Johannes Dornheim , Stefan Sandfeld , Norbert Link , Dirk Helm

Analysis of molecular scale interactions and chemical structure offers an enormous opportunity to tune material properties for targeted applications. However, designing materials from molecular scale is a grand challenge owing to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-19 Praneeth S Ramesh , Tarak K Patra

Generative AI has recently had a profound impact on various fields, including daily life, research, and education. To explore its efficient utilization in data-driven materials science, we organized a hackathon -- AIMHack2024 -- in July…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Takahiro Misawa , Ai Koizumi , Ryo Tamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi

This paper systematically reviews the research progress and application prospects of machine learning technologies in the field of polymer materials. Currently, machine learning methods are developing rapidly in polymer material research;…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-31 Hongtao Guo Shuai Li Shu Li

Generative AI (GenAI) tools are radically expanding the scope and capability of automation in knowledge work such as academic research. While promising for augmenting cognition and streamlining processes, AI-assisted research tools may also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Runlong Ye , Matthew Varona , Oliver Huang , Patrick Yung Kang Lee , Michael Liut , Carolina Nobre

The ability to readily design novel materials with chosen functional properties on-demand represents a next frontier in materials discovery. However, thoroughly and efficiently sampling the entire design space in a computationally tractable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang , Guoxiang Hu , P. Ganesh , Bobby G. Sumpter

The research of metamaterials has achieved enormous success in the manipulation of light in an artificially prescribed manner using delicately designed sub-wavelength structures, so-called meta-atoms. Even though modern numerical methods…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wei Ma , Feng Cheng , Yihao Xu , Qinlong Wen , Yongmin Liu

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzz word since Google's AlphaGo beat a world champion in 2017. In the past five years, machine learning as a subset of the broader category of AI has obtained considerable attention in the research…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Mengqi Wang , Krishna Kumar , Y. T. Feng , Tongming Qu , Min Wang

Active learning has been increasingly applied to screening functional materials from existing materials databases with desired properties. However, the number of known materials deposited in the popular materials databases such as ICSD and…

Disordered (amorphous) materials, such as glasses, are emerging as promising candidates for applications within energy storage, nonlinear optics, and catalysis. Their lack of long-range order and complex short- and medium-range orderings,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Jonas A. Finkler , Yan Lin , Tao Du , Jilin Hu , Morten M. Smedskjaer

The rapid design of advanced materials is a topic of great scientific interest. The conventional, ``forward'' paradigm of materials design involves evaluating multiple candidates to determine the best candidate that matches the target…

High-throughput data generation methods and machine learning (ML) algorithms have given rise to a new era of computational materials science by learning relationships among composition, structure, and properties and by exploiting such…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has undergone transformative advances since 2022, particularly through generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and diffusion models, fundamentally reshaping the creative industries. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Fan Zhang , David Bull

Generative machine learning models can use data generated by scientific modeling to create large quantities of novel material structures. Here, we assess how one state-of-the-art generative model, the physics-guided crystal generation model…

Advances in generative artificial intelligence are transforming how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are designed and discovered. This Perspective introduces the shift from laborious enumeration of MOF candidates to generative approaches…

Mechanical metamaterial is a synthetic material that can possess extraordinary physical characteristics, such as abnormal elasticity, stiffness, and stability, by carefully designing its internal structure. To make metamaterials contain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yanyan Yang , Lili Wang , Xiaoya Zhai , Kai Chen , Wenming Wu , Yunkai Zhao , Ligang Liu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Metamaterials are artificial materials designed to exhibit effective material parameters that go beyond those found in nature. Composed of unit cells with rich designability that are assembled into multiscale systems, they hold great…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Doksoo Lee , Wei Wayne Chen , Liwei Wang , Yu-Chin Chan , Wei Chen