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Evolutionary crystal structure prediction searches have been employed to explore the ternary Li-F-H system at 300 GPa. Metastable phases were uncovered within the static lattice approximation, with LiF$_3$H$_2$, LiF$_2$H, Li$_3$F$_4$H,…

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Crystal structure prediction is a central problem of theoretical crystallography and materials science, which until mid-2000s was considered intractable. Several methods, based on either energy landscape exploration$^{1,2}$ or, more…

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Atomic-level modeling performed at large scales enables the investigation of mesoscale materials properties with atom-by-atom resolution. The spatial complexity of such cross-scale simulations renders them unsuitable for simple human visual…

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Data-driven methods, in particular machine learning, can help to speed up the discovery of new materials by finding hidden patterns in existing data and using them to identify promising candidate materials. In the case of superconductors,…

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Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar , Matthew A. McDonald , Feng Liu

Possible crystalline modifications of chemical compounds at low temperatures correspond to local minima of the energy landscape. Determining these minima via simulated annealing is one method for the prediction of crystal structures, where…

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Machine learning potentials (MLPs) have become indispensable for conducting accurate large-scale atomistic simulations and for the efficient prediction of crystal structures. Polynomial MLPs, defined by polynomial rotational invariants,…

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Efficient synthesis recipes are needed both to streamline the manufacturing of complex materials and to accelerate the realization of theoretically predicted materials. Oftentimes the solid-state synthesis of multicomponent oxides is…

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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 exhaustively search quaternary metal hydrides based on the (13-2-1) and (13-3-1) structures that are the two of the putative densest ternary sphere packings in cubic systems [R. Koshoji \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. E \textbf{104}, 024101…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-21 Ryotaro Koshoji , Masahiro Fukuda , Taisuke Ozaki

Elpasolite is the predominant quaternary crystal structure (AlNaK$_2$F$_6$ prototype) reported in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database. We have developed a machine learning model to calculate density functional theory quality formation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Felix Faber , Alexander Lindmaa , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Rickard Armiento

Current large language models require hundreds of billions of parameters yet struggle with domain-specific reasoning and tool coordination in materials science. Here, we present MatBrain, a lightweight collaborative agent system with two…

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Materials discovery is a computationally intensive process that requires exploring vast chemical spaces to identify promising candidates with desirable properties. In this work, we propose using quantum-enhanced machine learning algorithms…

A fundamental challenge in materials design is linking building block attributes to crystal structure. Addressing this challenge is particularly difficult for systems that exhibit emergent order, such as entropy-stabilized colloidal…

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Reliable artificial-intelligence models have the potential to accelerate the discovery of materials with optimal properties for various applications, including superconductivity, catalysis, and thermoelectricity. Advancements in this field…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-07 Thomas A. R. Purcell , Matthias Scheffler , Luca M. Ghiringhelli , Christian Carbogno

Swift discovery of spin-crossover materials for their potential application in quantum information devices requires techniques which enable efficient identification of suitably bistable candidates. To this end, we screened the Cambridge…

The development of new materials is a core aspect of advancement in synthesis and application for industry. There is a vast number of possible chemical permutations of the basic elements that can be explored to synthesize materials that…

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Due to the subtle balance of intermolecular interactions that govern structure-property relations, predicting the stability of crystal structures formed from molecular building blocks is a highly non-trivial scientific problem. A…

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Atomistic simulations have become a powerful tool in materials research due to the extremely fine spatial and temporal resolution provided by such techniques. In order to understand the fundamental principles which govern material behavior…

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Traditional materials discovery approaches - relying primarily on laborious experiments - have controlled the pace of technology. Instead, computational approaches offer an accelerated path: high-throughput exploration and characterization…

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