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In computational chemistry, crystal structure prediction (CSP) is an optimization problem that involves discovering the lowest energy stable crystal structure for a given chemical formula. This problem is challenging as it requires…

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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…

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) stands as a powerful tool in materials science, driving the discovery and design of innovative materials. However, existing CSP methods heavily rely on formation enthalpies derived from density functional…

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Crystalline materials are widely used in technological applications, yet their discovery remains a significant challenge. As their properties are driven by structure, crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods play a central role in…

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Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction patterns is a complex challenge in materials science, often requiring extensive expertise and computational resources. This study introduces DiffractGPT, a generative pre-trained…

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Stable or metastable crystal structures of assembled atoms can be predicted by finding the global or local minima of the energy surface within a broad space of atomic configurations. Generally, this requires repeated first-principles energy…

Prediction of stable crystal structures at given pressure-temperature conditions, based only on the knowledge of the chemical composition, is a central problem of condensed matter physics. This extremely challenging problem is often termed…

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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…

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

We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable…

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Metastable materials are abundant in nature and technology, showcasing remarkable properties that inspire innovative materials design. However, traditional crystal structure prediction methods, which rely solely on energetic factors to…

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Materials property predictions have improved from advances in machine learning algorithms, delivering materials discoveries and novel insights through data-driven models of structure-property relationships. Nearly all available models rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Yiqun Wang , Xiao-Jie Zhang , Fei Xia , Elsa A. Olivetti , Ram Seshadri , James M. Rondinelli

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…

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) -- the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based only on its molecular composition. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Andrew Wildman , Rodrigo Wang , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

The prediction of material structure from chemical composition has been a long-standing challenge in natural science. Although there have been various methodological developments and successes with computer simulations, the prediction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Naoto Tsujimoto , Daiki Adachi , Ryosuke Akashi , Synge Todo , Shinji Tsuneyuki

Crystal structure prediction is one of the major unsolved problems in materials science. Traditionally, this problem is formulated as a global optimization problem for which global search algorithms are combined with first principle free…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-13 Jianjun Hu , Yong Zhao , Qin Li , Yuqi Song , Rongzhi Dong , Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya MD Siriwardane

Evolutionary crystal structure prediction proved to be a powerful approach for studying a wide range of materials. Here, we present a specifically designed algorithm for the prediction of the structure of complex crystals consisting of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-21 Qiang Zhu , Artem R. Oganov , Colin W. Glass , Harold T. Stokes

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) remains a fundamental challenge with significant implications for the development of new materials and the advancement of various scientific disciplines. Recent developments have shown that generative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yang Liu , Chuan Zhou , Shuai Zhang , Peng Zhang , Xixun Lin , Shirui Pan

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) aims to discover solid crystalline materials by optimizing periodic arrangements of atoms, ions or molecules. CSP takes weeks of supercomputer time because of slow energy minimizations for millions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Jakob Ropers , Marco M Mosca , Olga Anosova , Vitaliy Kurlin , Andrew I Cooper

Version 13 of XtalOpt, an evolutionary algorithm for crystal structure prediction, is now available for download from the CPC program library or the XtalOpt website, https://xtalopt.github.io. In the new version of the XtalOpt code, a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Samad Hajinazar , Eva Zurek