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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Grain-Size Dependence of Thermal and Electrical Properties in (Cr,Mo,Ta,V,W)C1-δ High-Entropy Carbide Ceramics

Ali Sarikhani, Gregory E. Hilmas, David W. Lipke +4

Thermal and electrical transport in high-entropy carbides can be influenced by grain-boundary scattering, but the relevant microstructural regime remains uncertain. Here, near-full…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Disorder viscosity correction approach to calculate spinodal temperature and wavelength

Simon Divilov, Hagen Eckert, Nico Hotz +2

Spinodal decomposition, a key mechanism to microstructure formation in materials, has long posed challenges for predictive modeling, due to the need for parameter-free approaches t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Composition/structure directed search for new chalcogenide compounds

Alon Hever, Ohad Levy, Stefano Curtarolo +1

This work presents a simple scheme for finding new crystalline compounds by adapting structure types from neighbor atoms compounds. The approach is demonstrated for the selenide an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Predicting cement microstructure and mechanical properties in hydrating cement paste with a Phase-Field model

Alexandre Sac-Morane, Katerina Ioannidou, Manolis Veveakis +1

Predicting the evolving microstructure of hydrating cement is essential for understanding and modeling its mechanical property development. Physics-based continuum approaches offer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nanoscale Polar Landscapes in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3

Yang Zhang, Suk Hyun Sung, Nishkarsh Agarwal +5

SrTiO3 is a textbook quantum paraelectric, with ferroelectricity purportedly suppressed by quantum fluctuations of ionic positions down to the lowest temperatures. The precise real…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 10 cited

AFLOW4: heading toward disorder

Simon Divilov, Hagen Eckert, Scott D. Thiel +10

AFLOW4 is the latest iteration of the AFLOW toolkit, specifically tailored to study high-entropy disordered materials. This upgrade includes innovative features like the Soliquidy…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Efficient Computation of the Long-Range Exact Exchange using an Extended Screening Function

Sebastian Kokott, Volker Blum, Matthias Scheffler

We introduce a computationally efficient screening for the Coulomb potential that also allows calculating approximated long-range exact exchange contributions with an accuracy simi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 8 cited

Spin-to-charge conversion at KTaO3(111) interfaces

Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Rui Sun, Andrew H. Comstock +3

Rashba spin-orbit coupling locks the spin with momentum of charge carriers at the broken inversion interfaces, which could generate a large spin galvanic response. Here, we demonst…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Soliquidy: a descriptor for atomic geometrical confusion

Hagen Eckert, Sebastian A. Kube, Simon Divilov +10

Tailoring material properties often requires understanding the solidification process. Herein, we introduce the geometric descriptor Soliquidy, which numerically captures the Eucli…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

High-throughput search for topological magnon materials

Mohammed J. Karaki, Ahmed E. Fahmy, Archibald J. Williams +3

Topological magnons give rise to possibilities for engineering novel spintronics devices with critical applications in quantum information and computation, due to its symmetry-prot…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Correcting Delocalization Error in Materials with Localized Orbitals and Linear-Response Screening

Jacob Z. Williams, Weitao Yang

Delocalization error prevents density functional theory (DFT) from reaching its full potential, causing problems like systematically underestimated band gaps and misaligned energy…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 40 cited

Efficient All-electron Hybrid Density Functionals for Atomistic Simulations Beyond 10,000 Atoms

Sebastian Kokott, Florian Merz, Yi Yao +6

Hybrid density functional approximations (DFAs) offer compelling accuracy for ab initio electronic-structure simulations of molecules, nanosystems, and bulk materials, addressing s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

Noninvasive identification of carbon-based black pigments with pump-probe microscopy

Heidi V. Kastenholz, Michael I. Topper, Warren S. Warren +2

Carbon-based black pigments, a widely used class of pigments, are difficult to differentiate with the noninvasive techniques currently used in cultural heritage science. We utilize…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 20 cited

The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 4

Hagen Eckert, Simon Divilov, Michael J. Mehl +5

The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes has been updated to include an additional 683 entries, which now reaches 1,783 prototypes. We have also made some changes to the pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 49 cited

Developments and applications of the OPTIMADE API for materials discovery, design, and data exchange

Matthew L. Evans, Johan Bergsma, Andrius Merkys +56

The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) application programming interface (API) empowers users with holistic access to a growing federation of databases, enh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 19 cited

Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for Ternary Carbides trained on the AFLOW Database

Josiah Roberts, Biswas Rijal, Simon Divilov +6

Large density functional theory (DFT) databases are a treasure trove of energies, forces and stresses that can be used to train machine learned interatomic potentials for atomistic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 10 cited

A priori procedure to establish spinodal decomposition in alloys

Simon Divilov, Hagen Eckert, Cormac Toher +10

Spinodal decomposition can improve a number of essential properties in materials, especially hardness. Yet, the theoretical prediction of the onset of this phenomenon (e.g., temper…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 18 cited

A Phase-Field Discrete Element Method to study chemo-mechanical coupling in granular materials

Alexandre Sac-Morane, Manolis Veveakis, Hadrien Rattez

This paper presents an extension of the discrete element method using a phase-field formulation to incorporate grain shape and its evolution. The introduction of a phase variable e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 6 cited

Non-destructive Three-dimensional Imaging of Artificially Degraded CdS Paints by Pump-probe Microscopy

Yue Zhou, David Grass, Warren S. Warren +1

Cadmium sulfide (CdS) pigments have degraded in several well-known paintings, but the mechanisms of degradation have yet to be fully understood. Traditional non-destructive analysi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

Magnetic State Control of Non-van der Waals 2D Materials by Hydrogenation

Tom Barnowsky, Stefano Curtarolo, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov +2

Controlling the magnetic state of two-dimensional (2D) materials is crucial for spintronic applications. By employing data-mining and autonomous density functional theory calculati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 10 cited

Helical magnetic state in the vicinity of the pressure-induced superconducting phase in MnP

S. E. Dissanayake, M. Matsuda, K. Yoshimi +10

MnP is a metal that shows successive magnetic transitions from paramagnetic to ferromagnetic and helical magnetic phases at ambient pressure with decreasing temperature. With appli…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 214 cited

14 Examples of How LLMs Can Transform Materials Science and Chemistry: A Reflection on a Large Language Model Hackathon

Kevin Maik Jablonka, Qianxiang Ai, Alexander Al-Feghali +50

Large-language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 caught the interest of many scientists. Recent studies suggested that these models could be useful in chemistry and materials science. To…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 13 cited

Quasicrystalline structure of the Smith monotile tilings

Joshua E. S. Socolar

Tiling models can reveal unexpected ways in which local constraints give rise to exotic long-range spatial structure. The recently discovered Hat monotile (and its mirror image) ha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 10 cited

Special Glass Structures for First Principles Studies of Bulk Metallic Glasses

Siya Zhu, Jan Schroers, Stefano Curtarolo +2

The atomic-level structure of bulk metallic glasses is a key determinant of their properties. An accurate representation of amorphous systems in computational studies has tradition…