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We present a computational screening of experimental structural repositories for fast Li-ion conductors, with the goal of finding new candidate materials for application as solid-state electrolytes in next-generation batteries. We start…

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Data mining is a recognized predictive tool in a variety of areas ranging from bioinformatics and drug design to crystal structure prediction. In the present study, an electronic structure implementation has been combined with structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-18 C. Ortiz , O. Eriksson , M. Klintenberg

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

Electrides, with their excess electrons distributed in crystal cavities playing the role of anions, exhibit a variety of unique properties which make these materials desirable for many applications in catalysis, nonlinear optics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-30 Qiang Zhu , Timofey Frolov , Kamal Choudhary

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…

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Crystal structure generation is fundamental to materials science, enabling the discovery of novel materials with desired properties. While existing approaches leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) through extensive fine-tuning on materials…

Predicting phase stabilities of crystal polymorphs is central to computational materials science and chemistry. Such predictions are challenging because they first require searching for potential energy minima and then performing arduous…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-15 Aleks Reinhardt , Chris J. Pickard , Bingqing Cheng

Machine learning (ML) models utilizing structure-based features provide an efficient means for accurate property predictions across diverse chemical spaces. However, obtaining equilibrium crystal structures typically requires expensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-22 Yunxing Zuo , Mingde Qin , Chi Chen , Weike Ye , Xiangguo Li , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong

The Materials Project crystal structure database has been searched for materials possessing layered motifs in their crystal structures using a topology-scaling algorithm. The algorithm identifies and measures the sizes of bonded atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-08 Michael Ashton , Joshua Paul , Susan B. Sinnott , Richard G. Hennig

The discovery of new multicomponent inorganic compounds can provide direct solutions to many scientific and engineering challenges, yet the vast size of the uncharted material space dwarfs current synthesis throughput. While the…

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An easily available resource of common crystal structures is essential for researchers, teachers, and students. For many years this was provided by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's $Crystal\ Lattice\ Structures$ web page, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-09 Michael J. Mehl , David Hicks , Cormac Toher , Ohad Levy , Robert M. Hanson , Gus Hart , Stefano Curtarolo

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) have significantly advanced global crystal structure prediction by enabling efficient and accurate property evaluations. In this study, global structure searches are performed for 11 bismuth-based binary…

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Developing new metal hydrides is a critical step toward efficient hydrogen storage in carbon-neutral energy systems. However, existing materials databases, such as the Materials Project, contain a limited number of well-characterized…

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We demonstrate a machine learning-based approach which predicts the properties of crystal structures following relaxation based on the unrelaxed structure. Use of crystal graph singular values reduces the number of features required to…

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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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Global optimization of crystal compositions is a significant yet computationally intensive method to identify stable structures within chemical space. The specific physical properties linked to a three-dimensional atomic arrangement make…

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Atomically thin 2-dimensional heterostructures are a promising, novel class of materials with groundbreaking properties. The possiblity of choosing the many constituent components and their proportions allows optimizing these materials to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Petri Hirvonen , Vili Heinonen , Haikuan Dong , Zheyong Fan , Ken R. Elder , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Finding new materials with previously unknown atomic structure or materials with optimal set of properties for a specific application greatly benefits from computational modeling. Recently, such screening has been dramatically accelerated…

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