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We have developed an efficient crystal structure prediction (CSP) method for desired chemical compositions, specifically suited for compounds featuring recurring molecules or rigid bodies. We applied this method to two metal chalcogenides:…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Qi Zhang , Amitava Choudhury , Aleksandr Chernatynskiy

We present an evaluation of CSP-MACE-{\AA}, a machine learning interatomic potential intended to replace DFT in crystal structure prediction (CSP). We decompose the total energy into separate intramolecular and intermolecular components.…

Recent advances in deep learning generative models (GMs) have created high capabilities in accessing and assessing complex high-dimensional data, allowing superior efficiency in navigating vast material configuration space in search of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-13 Xiaoshan Luo , Zhenyu Wang , Pengyue Gao , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Changfeng Chen , Yanming Ma

Crystal structure prediction remains a major challenge in materials science, directly impacting the discovery and development of next-generation materials. We introduce TCSP 2.0, a substantial evolution of our template-based crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 Lai Wei , Rongzhi Dong , Nihang Fu , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Jianjun Hu

Crystal structures can be predicted from first-principles using ab initio random structure searching AIRSS and density functional theory (DFT). AIRSS provides a method to sample the potential energy landscape and DFT provides a robust and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Lewis J. Conway , Chris J. Pickard

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is emerging as a powerful method for the computational design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). In this article we employ CSP to perform high-throughput exploration of the crystal energy landscape of…

The discovery of new materials using crystal structure prediction (CSP) based on generative machine learning models has become a significant research topic in recent years. In this paper, we study invariance and continuity in the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuji Tone , Masatoshi Hanai , Mitsuaki Kawamura , Kenjiro Taura , Toyotaro Suzumura

Accurate crystal structure prediction (CSP) requires accounting for finite-temperature and nuclear quantum effects, yet first-principles evaluation of the free energy surface (FES) remains prohibitive for high-throughput searches. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-23 Xiaoyang Wang , Yinan Wang , Wenbo Zhao , Hanyu Liu , Hao Xie , Lei Wang , Han Wang

First-principles based crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods have revealed an essential tool for the discovery of new materials. However, in solids close to displacive phase transitions, which are common in ferroelectrics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Hao Gao , Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea

Crystalline materials can form different structural arrangements (i.e. polymorphs) with the same chemical composition, exhibiting distinct physical properties depending on how they were synthesized or the conditions under which they…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Sadman Sadeed Omee , Lai Wei , Sourin Dey , Jianjun Hu

Supported nanoparticle catalysts are widely used in the chemical industry. Computational modeling of supported nanoparticles based on density functional theory (DFT) often involves structural searches of stable local minimum energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Jiayan Xu , Abhirup Patra , Amar Deep Pathak , Sharan Shetty , Detlef Hohl , Roberto Car

Atomistic simulation methods have evolved through successive computational levels, each building upon more fundamental approaches: from quantum mechanics to density functional theory (DFT), and subsequently, to machine learning interatomic…

Crystal structure prediction (CSP), which aims to predict the three-dimensional atomic arrangement of a crystal from its composition, is central to materials discovery and mechanistic understanding. However, given the composition in a unit…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Shi Yin , Jinming Mu , Xudong Zhu , Linxin He

As with many parts of the natural sciences, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing the modeling of molecular crystals. However, challenges remain for the accurate and efficient calculation of sublimation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Flaviano Della Pia , Benjamin X. Shi , Venkat Kapil , Andrea Zen , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

Accurately predicting experimentally realizable 3D molecular crystal structures from their 2D chemical graphs is a long-standing open challenge in computational chemistry called crystal structure prediction (CSP). Efficiently solving this…

With advancements in computational molecular modeling and powerful structure search methods, it is now possible to systematically screen crystal structures for small organic molecules. In this context, we introduce the Python package…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-06 Qiang Zhu , Shinnosuke Hattori

Structural search and feature extraction are a central subject in modern materials design, the efficiency of which is currently limited, but can be potentially boosted by machine learning (ML). Here, we develop an ML-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Chuannan Li , Hanpu Liang , Xie Zhang , Zijing Lin , Su-Huai Wei

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…

The use of machine learning methods for accelerating the design of crystalline materials usually requires manually constructed feature vectors or complex transformation of atom coordinates to input the crystal structure, which either…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-10 Tian Xie , Jeffrey C. Grossman

Computational prediction of stable crystal structures has a profound impact on the large-scale discovery of novel functional materials. However, predicting the crystal structure solely from a material's composition or formula is a promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Yuqi Song , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qin Li , Jianjun Hu