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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…

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In computational materials science, a common means for predicting macroscopic (e.g., mechanical) properties of an alloy is to define a model using combinations of descriptors that depend on some material properties (elastic constants,…

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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…

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While traditional trial-and-error methods for designing amorphous alloys are costly and inefficient, machine learning approaches based solely on composition lack critical atomic structural information. Machine learning interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-19 Xuhe Gong , Hengbo Zhao , Xiao Fu , Jingchen Lian , Qifan Yang , Ran Li , Ruijuan Xiao , Tao Zhang , Hong Li

The ability to reliably predict the structures and stabilities of a molecular crystal and its polymorphs without any prior experimental information would be an invaluable tool for a number of fields, with specific and immediate applications…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used to model diverse atomistic phenomena, yet parameterizing them to accurately capture solid-state phase transformations remains difficult. We present error metrics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Lorenzo Piersante , Anirudh Raju Natarajan

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) based on a large dataset obtained by density functional theory (DFT) calculation have been developed recently. This study gives both conceptual and practical bases for the high accuracy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Akira Takahashi , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

Determination of crystal structures of nanocrystalline or amorphous compounds is a great challenge in solid states chemistry and physics. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of X-Ray or neutron total scattering data has proven to be a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Magnus Kløve , Sanna Sommer , Bo B. Iversen , Bjørk Hammer , Wilke Dononelli

Accurate potential energy surface (PES) descriptions are essential for atomistic simulations of materials. Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (UMLIPs)$^{1-3}$ offer a computationally efficient alternative to density…

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) developed from extensive datasets constructed from density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become increasingly appealing for many researchers. This paper presents a framework of polynomial-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-29 Atsuto Seko

Crystal property prediction, governed by quantum mechanical principles, is computationally prohibitive to solve exactly for large many-body systems using traditional density functional theory. While machine learning models have emerged as…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-28 Bin Cao , Yang Liu , Longhan Zhang , Yifan Wu , Zhixun Li , Yuyu Luo , Hong Cheng , Yang Ren , Tong-Yi Zhang

Determination of atomic structures is a key challenge in the fields of computational physics and materials science, as a large variety of mechanical, chemical, electronic, and optical properties depend sensitively on structure. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Sami Kaappa , Estefanía Garijo del Río , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has proven to be a highly effective route for discovering new materials. Substantial advancements have been made in CSP of inorganic and molecular crystals, while hybrid materials, including metal-organic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Elizaveta Yakovenko , Iurii Nevolin , Anatoliy Chasovskikh , Artem Mitrofanov , Vadim Korolev

In this study, we present a sophisticated hybrid machine-learning framework that significantly improves the accuracy of predicting hydrogen storage capacities in metal hydrides. This is a critical challenge due to the scarcity of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Pritam Das , Swetarekha Ram , Seung-Cheol Lee

A thorough in situ characterization of materials at extreme conditions is challenging, and computational tools such as crystal structural search methods in combination with ab initio calculations are widely used to guide experiments by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Maximilian Amsler , Vinay I. Hegde , Steven D. Jacobsen , Chris Wolverton

Predicting which hypothetical inorganic crystals can be experimentally realized remains a central challenge in accelerating materials discovery. SyntheFormer is a positive-unlabeled framework that learns synthesizability directly from…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Danial Ebrahimzadeh , Sarah Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

We develop a method combining machine learning (ML) and density functional theory (DFT) to predict low-energy polymorphs by introducing physics-guided descriptors based on structural distortion modes. We systematically generate crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-07 Bastien F. Grosso , Nicola A. Spaldin , Aria Mansouri Tehrani

Twisted layered van-der-Waals materials often exhibit unique electronic and optical properties absent in their non-twisted counterparts. Unfortunately, predicting such properties is hindered by the difficulty in determining the atomic…

Universal Machine Learning Interactomic Potentials (MLIPs) enable accelerated simulations for materials discovery. However, current research efforts fail to impactfully utilize MLIPs due to: 1. Overreliance on Density Functional Theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-07 Santiago Miret , Kin Long Kelvin Lee , Carmelo Gonzales , Sajid Mannan , N. M. Anoop Krishnan

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.…