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LiF-NaF-ZrF4 multicomponent molten salts are promising candidate coolants for advanced clean energy systems owing to their desirable thermophysical and transport properties. However, the complex structures enabling these properties, and…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are often trained with on-the-fly active learning, where sampled configurations from atomistic simulations are added to the training set. However, this approach is limited by the high…

This work demonstrates that fine-tuning transforms foundational machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) to achieve consistent, near-ab initio accuracy across diverse architectures. Benchmarking five leading MLIP frameworks (MACE,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Jonas Hänseroth , Aaron Flötotto , Muhammad Nawaz Qaisrani , Christian Dreßler

Universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (U-MLIPs) have demonstrated effectiveness across diverse atomistic systems but often require fine-tuning for task-specific accuracy. We investigate the fine-tuning of two MACE-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Xiaoqing Liu , Kehan Zeng , Yangshuai Wang , Teng Zhao

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are an emerging modeling technique that promises to provide electronic structure theory accuracy for a fraction of its cost, however, the transferability of MLIPs is a largely unknown factor.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Tristan Maxson , Tibor Szilvasi

Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have surged in popularity due to their promise of expanding the spatiotemporal scales possible for simulating molecules with high fidelity. The accuracy of any MLIP is dependent on the data…

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Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing computational materials science and chemistry by offering an efficient alternative to {\em ab initio} molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. However, fitting high-quality…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ilgar Baghishov , Jan Janssen , Graeme Henkelman , Danny Perez

Simulation techniques based on accurate and efficient representations of potential energy surfaces are urgently needed for the understanding of complex aqueous systems such as solid-liquid interfaces. Here, we present a machine learning…

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The design of efficient electrolysis devices for pure metal production requires accurate data on the properties of the melts used in the process. This work focuses on two key systems for calcium production: the molten Ca-Cu alloy and the…

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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…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) and force fields (i.e. interaction laws for atoms and molecules) are typically trained on limited data-sets that cover only a very small section of the full space of possible input structures.…

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Interatomic potentials are key to uncovering microscopic structure-property relationships, essential for multiscale simulations and high-throughput experiments. For metallic glasses, their disordered atomic structure makes the development…

We perform molecular dynamics simulations of molten Lithium Fluoride using the MACE-MP-0 (small) machine learnt interatomic potential and the classical Buckingham and Born-Huggins-Mayer potentials. We find that the MACE-MP-0,…

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Understanding concentrated electrolytes requires a theory that spans local hydration and mesoscale interfacial assembly. We present an integrated workflow-SCOPE-that combines (i) enhanced sampling focused on a single Li+ ion, (ii)…

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Once trained, machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) provide a fast and accurate way to study catalytic reaction pathways, but their performance strongly depends on the training set. Here, we compare nine MLIPs trained with…

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have emerged as powerful tools for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with their competitive accuracy and computational efficiency. However, MLIPs are often observed to exhibit un-physical…

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