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As in many other fields, the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping materials discovery by offering new ways to propose crystal structures and, in some cases, even predict desired properties. This review provides a…

Determining crystal structures from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) has been a significant challenge in materials science, particularly when experimental data contain noise or the target structure has a high complexity. While recent AI…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Kaixiang Su , Osman Goni Ridwan , Hongfei Xue , Qiang Zhu

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 A. R. Oganov , Y. Ma , A. O. Lyakhov , M. Valle , C. Gatti

Lattice constants such as unit cell edge lengths and plane angles are important parameters of the periodic structures of crystal materials. Predicting crystal lattice constants has wide applications in crystal structure prediction and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-02 Yuxin Li , Wenhui Yang , Rongzhi Dong , Jianjun Hu

A very active area of materials research is to devise methods that use machine learning to automatically extract predictive models from existing materials data. While prior examples have demonstrated successful models for some applications,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-29 Logan Ward , Ankit Agrawal , Alok Choudhary , Christopher Wolverton

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

Computational methods that automatically extract knowledge from data are critical for enabling data-driven materials science. A reliable identification of lattice symmetry is a crucial first step for materials characterization and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 A. Ziletti , D. Kumar , M. Scheffler , L. M. Ghiringhelli

Despite two decades of studies, the formation of metallic glasses, very promising systems for industrial applications, still remains mostly unexplained. This lack of knowledge hinders the search for new systems, still performed with…

X-ray crystallography rarely captures chemical bonding between atoms of a structure in question. Most of the time distance-based heuristics are applied to establish the pairs of bonded atoms. One class of such heuristics depends on a set of…

This paper reviews past and ongoing efforts in using high-throughput ab-inito calculations in combination with machine learning models for materials design. The primary focus is on bulk materials, i.e., materials with fixed, ordered,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-08 Rickard Armiento

The design of crystal materials plays a critical role in areas such as new energy development, biomedical engineering, and semiconductors. Recent advances in data-driven methods have enabled the generation of diverse crystal structures.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chao Huang , Jiahui Chen , Chen Chen , Chen Chen , Chunyan Chen , Renjie Su , Shiyu Du

Diffraction is the most common method to solve for unknown or partially known crystal structures. However, it remains a challenge to determine the crystal structure of a new material that may have nanoscale size or heterogeneities. Here we…

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) for inorganic materials is one of the central and most challenging problems in materials science and computational chemistry. This problem can be formulated as a global optimization problem in which global…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianjun Hu , Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane

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

Crystallization of the amorphous phases into metastable crystals plays a fundamental role in the formation of new matter, from geological to biological processes in nature to synthesis and development of new materials in the laboratory.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-03 Muratahan Aykol , Amil Merchant , Simon Batzner , Jennifer N. Wei , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Crystal structure determines properties of materials. With the crystal structure of a chemical substance, many physical and chemical properties can be predicted by first-principles calculations or machine learning models. Since it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Rongzhi Dong , Yuxin Li , Jianjun Hu

Crystal structure prediction is now playing an increasingly important role in discovery of new materials. Global optimization methods such as genetic algorithms (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) have been combined with first…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Jianjun Hu , Wenhui Yang , Rongzhi Dong , Yuxin Li , Xiang Li , Shaobo Li

Accurate molecular crystal structure prediction is a fundamental goal in academic and industrial condensed matter research and polymorphism is arguably the biggest obstacle on the way. We tackle this challenge in the difficult case of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Cong Huy Pham , Emine Kucukbenli , Stefano de Gironcoli

We present a novel method for predicting binary phase diagrams through the automatic construction of a minimal basis set of representative templates. The core assumption is that any materials space can be divided into a small number of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-03 Caja Annweiler , Simone Di Cataldo , Maurits W. Haverkort , Lilia Boeri

Crystal structure design is important for the discovery of new highly functional materials because crystal structure strongly influences material properties. Crystal structures are composed of space-filling polyhedra, which affect material…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-06 Tomoyasu Yokoyama , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Hisashi Naito