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Crystallization is a key step in macromolecular structure determination by crystallography. While a robust theoretical treatment of the process is available, due to the complexity of the system, the experimental process is still largely one…

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Crystal structures are characterised by repeating atomic patterns within unit cells across three-dimensional space, posing unique challenges for graph-based representation learning. Current methods often overlook essential periodic boundary…

Computational methods that automatically extract knowledge from data are critical for enabling data-driven materials science. A reliable identification of lattice symmetry is a crucial first step for materials characterization and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 A. Ziletti , D. Kumar , M. Scheffler , L. M. Ghiringhelli

Generative models for crystalline materials often rely on equivariant graph neural networks, which capture geometric structure well but are costly to train and slow to sample. We present Crystalite, a lightweight diffusion Transformer for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tin Hadži Veljković , Joshua Rosenthal , Ivor Lončarić , Jan-Willem van de Meent

Crystal graph neural networks are widely applicable in modeling experimentally synthesized compounds and hypothetical materials with unknown synthesizability. In contrast, structure-agnostic predictive algorithms allow exploring previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Ivan Rubtsov , Ivan Dudakov , Yuri Kuratov , Vadim Korolev

The prediction of absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity (ADMET) of small molecules from their molecular structure is a central problem in medicinal chemistry with great practical importance in drug discovery.…

Machine Learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for fast and accurate prediction of different crystalline properties. Exiting state-of-the-art models rely on a single modality of crystal data i.e. crystal graph structure, where they…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 Kishalay Das , Pawan Goyal , Seung-Cheol Lee , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Niloy Ganguly

To extend rational materials design and discovery into the space of metastable polymorphs, rapid and reliable assessment of their lifetimes is essential. Motivated by the early work of Buerger (1951), here we investigate the routes to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Vladan Stevanovic , Ryan Trottier , Felix Therrien , Charles Musgrave , Aaron Holder , Peter Graf

Crystal Structure Prediction (csp) is one of the central and most challenging problems in materials science and computational chemistry. In csp, the goal is to find a configuration of ions in 3D space that yields the lowest potential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Duncan Adamson , Argyrios Deligkas , Vladimir Gusev , Igor Potapov

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) for inorganic materials is one of the central and most challenging problems in materials science and computational chemistry. This problem can be formulated as a global optimization problem in which global…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianjun Hu , Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane

Prediction of a molecule's 3D conformer ensemble from the molecular graph holds a key role in areas of cheminformatics and drug discovery. Existing generative models have several drawbacks including lack of modeling important molecular…

Efficient heuristics have predicted many functional materials such as high-temperature superconducting hydrides, while inorganic structural chemistry explains why and how the crystal structures are stabilized. Here we develop the paired…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-07 Ryotaro Koshoji , Taisuke Ozaki

The prediction of crystal properties is essential for understanding structure-property relationships and accelerating the discovery of functional materials. However, conventional approaches relying on experimental measurements or density…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-24 Changwen Xu , Shang Zhu , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

Machine learning (ML) has seen promising developments in materials science, yet its efficacy largely depends on detailed crystal structural data, which are often complex and hard to obtain, limiting their applicability in real-world…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-10 Namkyeong Lee , Heewoong Noh , Gyoung S. Na , Jimeng Sun , Tianfan Fu , Marinka Zitnik , Chanyoung Park

An algorithm for determining crystal structures from diffraction data is described which does not rely on the usual Fourier-space formulations of atomicity. The new algorithm implements atomicity constraints in real-space, as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Veit Elser

The generation of plausible crystal structures is often the first step in predicting the structure and properties of a material from its chemical composition. Quickly generating and predicting inorganic crystal structures is important for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-13 Luis M. Antunes , Keith T. Butler , Ricardo Grau-Crespo

We developed a density functional theory-free approach for crystal structure prediction via combing graph network (GN) and Bayesian optimization (BO). GN is adopted to establish the correlation model between crystal structure and formation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Guanjian Cheng , Xin-Gao Gong , Wan-Jian Yin

Computational materials discovery relies on the generation of plausible crystal structures. The plausibility is typically judged through density functional theory methods which, while typically accurate at zero Kelvin, often favor…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Thorben Prein , Willis O'Leary , Aikaterini Flessa Savvidou , Elchaïma Bourneix , Joonatan E. M. Laulainen

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

Identifying local structural motifs and packing patterns of molecular solids is a challenging task for both simulation and experiment. We demonstrate two novel approaches to characterize local environments in different polymorphs of…

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