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AMORPH utilizes a new Bayesian statistical approach to interpreting X-ray diffraction results of samples with both crystalline and amorphous components. AMORPH fits X-ray diffraction patterns with a mixture of narrow and wide components,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-08-15 Michael C. Rowe , Brendon J. Brewer

Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is a widely studied non-crystalline material, and yet the subtle details of its atomistic structure are still unclear. Here, we show that accurate structural models of a-Si can be obtained by harnessing the power of…

Computing atomic-scale properties of chemically disordered materials requires an efficient exploration of their vast configuration space. Traditional approaches such as Monte Carlo or Special Quasirandom Structures either entail sampling an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Maciej J. Karcz , Luca Messina , Eiji Kawasaki , Emeric Bourasseau

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

Diffusion models promise to accelerate material design by directly generating novel structures with desired properties, but existing approaches typically require expensive and substantial labeled data ($>$10,000) and lack adaptability. Here…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Junwu Chen , Jeff Guo , Edvin Fako , Philippe Schwaller

In machine learning and molecular design, there exist two approaches: discriminative and generative. In the discriminative approach dubbed forward design, the goal is to map a set of features/molecules to their respective electronics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Alain Tchagang , Julio Valdés

Amorphous materials are coming within reach of realistic computer simulations, but new approaches are needed to fully understand their intricate atomic structures. Here, we show how machine-learning (ML)-based techniques can give new,…

In this paper, we review some recent work on amorphous materials using current "first principles" electronic structure/molecular dynamics techniques. The main theme of the paper is to emphasize new directions in the use of such ab initio…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Drabold , P. Biswas , D. Tafen , R. Atta-Fynn

Inverse design of solid-state materials with desired properties represents a formidable challenge in materials science. Although recent generative models have demonstrated potential, their adoption has been hindered by limitations such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Yan Chen , Xueru Wang , Xiaobin Deng , Yilun Liu , Xi Chen , Yunwei Zhang , Lei Wang , Hang Xiao

In materials science, the challenge of rapid prototyping materials with desired properties often involves extensive experimentation to find suitable microstructures. Additionally, finding microstructures for given properties is typically an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Sébastien Bompas , Stefan Sandfeld

Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are efficient at finding materials with desired properties, via…

Determining atomistic structures from characterization data is one of the most common yet intricate problems in materials science. Particularly in amorphous materials, proposing structures that balance realism and agreement with experiments…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiawei Guo , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

Amorphous materials are integral part of todays technology, they commonly are performant and versatile in integration. Consequently, future applications increasingly aim to harvest the potential of the amorphous state. Establishing its…

In addition to the forward inference of materials properties using machine learning, generative deep learning techniques applied on materials science allow the inverse design of materials, i.e., assessing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Teng Long , Yixuan Zhang , Hongbin Zhang

Shape-morphing structures possess the ability to change their shapes from one state to another, and therefore, offer great potential for a broad range of applications. A typical paradigm of morphing is transforming from an initial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Hirak Kansara , Mingchao Liu , Yinfeng He , Wei Tan

Composite materials often exhibit mechanical anisotropy owing to the material properties or geometrical configurations of the microstructure. This makes their inverse design a two-fold problem. First, we must learn the type and orientation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Asghar A. Jadoon , Karl A. Kalina , Manuel K. Rausch , Reese Jones , Jan N. Fuhg

This paper addresses a difficult inverse problem that involves the reconstruction of a three-dimensional model of tetrahedral amorphous semiconductors via inversion of diffraction data. By posing the material-structure determination as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-06 Dil K. Limbu , Stephen R. Elliott , Raymond Atta-Fynn , Parthapratim Biswas

The development of new materials typically involves a process of trial and error, guided by insights from past experimental and theoretical findings. The inverse design approach for soft-matter systems has the potential to optimize specific…

Singlet fission has emerged as one of the most exciting phenomena known to improve the efficiencies of different types of solar cells and has found uses in diverse optoelectronic applications. The range of available singlet fission…

There is an increasing interest in the amorphous states of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous coordination polymers, which can be produced by pressure-induced amorphization, temperature-induced amorphization, melt-quenching,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-20 Nicolas Castel , François-Xavier Coudert