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20132026
most citedAccelerating Materials Development via Automation, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing

348 citations · 1k across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

PUDA: An AI-Native Hardware Harness for Self-Driving Laboratories

Zekun Ren, Hongzhao Tan, Jiaen Yee +1

Physical Unified Device Architecture (PUDA) is an AI-native hardware harness for self-driving laboratories (SDLs). Rather than building a human-centered graphical user interface (G…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Virp: neural network-accelerated prediction of physical properties in site-disordered materials

Andy Paul Chen, Martin Hoffmann Petersen, Kedar Hippalgaonkar

Among metallic alloys, ceramics, and even common compounds such as water ice, it is usual to find materials in which crystalline order is expressed as a probability. In such cases,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Fast and Accurate Prediction of Lattice Thermal Conductivity via Machine Learning Surrogates

Zeyu Wang, Shuya Yamazaki, Martin Hoffmann Petersen +11

The appearance of generative models has opened vast chemical spaces in the design of functional materials. Although machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have substantial…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Generative design of inorganic materials

Jose Recatala-Gomez, Haiwen Dai, Zhu Ruiming +9

Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are ef…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Navigating Order-(Dis)Order Family Trees via Group-Subgroup Transitions

Shuya Yamazaki, Yuyao Huang, Martin Hoffmann Petersen +2

As closed-loop materials discovery systems scale to produce millions of candidate compounds, the credibility of the novelty they reward becomes a critical concern. Novelty is commo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

SWORD: Symmetry and Wyckoff-sequence of Ordered and Disordered crystals

Yuyao Huang, Wei Nong, Shuya Yamazaki +4

Novelty in materials discovery requires candidates to be distinct, non-redundant, and thermodynamically plausible. While crystallographic databases continue to expand in both size…

physics.optics2026

Closing the Loop in Epitaxy with Machine Learning: Joint Optimization of Growth and Geometry in On-Chip Lasers

Mihir R. Athavale, Stephen A. Church, Wei Wen Wong +4

Achieving device-to-device reproducibility is a critical bottleneck for scalable photonic integrated circuits, as subtle variations in bottom-up epitaxial growth and fabrication se…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Importance of Configurational Charge Ordering for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

Martin Hoffmann Petersen, Steen Lysgaard, Arghya Bhowmik +2

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable large-scale atomistic simulations but remain challenged in describing mixed-valence materials where charge ordering strongly…

physics.soc-ph2025

AI4X Roadmap: Artificial Intelligence for the advancement of scientific pursuit and its future directions

Stephen G. Dale, Nikita Kazeev, Alastair J. A. Price +65

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping how we approach scientific discovery, not by replacing established methods but by extending what researchers can probe, p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Dis-GEN: Disordered crystal structure generation

Martin Hoffmann Petersen, Ruiming Zhu, Haiwen Dai +6

A wide range of synthesized crystalline inorganic materials exhibit compositional disorder, where multiple atomic species partially occupy the same crystallographic site. As a resu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Energy Underprediction from Symmetry in Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials

Wei Nong, Ruiming Zhu, Zekun Ren +7

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIAPs) have emerged as powerful tools for accelerating materials simulations with near-density functional theory (DFT) accuracy. However,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Data-Driven Design-Test-Make-Analyze Paradigm for Inorganic Crystals: Ultrafast Synthesis of Ternary Oxides

Haiwen Dai, Matthew J. McDermott, Andy Paul Chen +19

Data-driven methodologies hold the promise of revolutionizing inorganic materials discovery, but they often face challenges due to discrepancies between theoretical predictions and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Direct Joule-Heated Non-Equilibrium Synthesis Enables High Performing Thermoelectrics

Chenguang Zhang, Jose Recatala-Gomez, Zainul Aabdin +20

High-throughput synthesis of bulk inorganic materials is crucial for accelerating functional materials discovery but is hindered by slow, energy-intensive solid-state methods. We i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Database and deep-learning scalability of anharmonic phonon properties by automated brute-force first-principles calculations

Masato Ohnishi, Tianqi Deng, Pol Torres +16

Understanding the anharmonic phonon properties of crystal compounds -- such as phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivities -- is essential for investigating and optimizing their th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Multi-property directed generative design of inorganic materials through Wyckoff-augmented transfer learning

Shuya Yamazaki, Wei Nong, Ruiming Zhu +3

Accelerated materials discovery is an urgent demand to drive advancements in fields such as energy conversion, storage, and catalysis. Property-directed generative design has emerg…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Wyckoff Transformer: Generation of Symmetric Crystals

Nikita Kazeev, Wei Nong, Ignat Romanov +4

Crystal symmetry plays a fundamental role in determining its physical, chemical, and electronic properties such as electrical and thermal conductivity, optical and polarization beh…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Accelerated Design of Microring Lasers with Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

Mihir R. Athavale, Ruqaiya Al-Abri, Stephen Church +5

On-chip coherent laser sources are crucial for the future of photonic integrated circuits, yet progress has been hindered by the complex interplay between material quality, device…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

Battling Botpoop using GenAI for Higher Education: A Study of a Retrieval Augmented Generation Chatbots Impact on Learning

Maung Thway, Jose Recatala-Gomez, Fun Siong Lim +2

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) have simultaneously opened new avenues for enhancing human learning and increased the prevalence of poor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Exploring material compositions for synthesis using oxidation states

Maung Thway, Andy Paul Chen, Haiwen Dai +9

Recent advances in machine learning techniques have made it possible to use high-throughput screening to identify novel materials with specific properties. However, the large numbe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 9 cited

WyCryst: Wyckoff Inorganic Crystal Generator Framework

Ruiming Zhu, Wei Nong, Shuya Yamazaki +1

Generative design marks a significant data-driven advancement in the exploration of novel inorganic materials, which entails learning the symmetry equivalent to the crystal structu…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 1 cited

Constructing Custom Thermodynamics Using Deep Learning

Xiaoli Chen, Beatrice W. Soh, Zi-En Ooi +5

One of the most exciting applications of artificial intelligence (AI) is automated scientific discovery based on previously amassed data, coupled with restrictions provided by know…

physics.app-ph2023★ 15 cited

Explainable machine learning to enable high-throughput electrical conductivity optimization and discovery of doped conjugated polymers

Ji Wei Yoon, Adithya Kumar, Pawan Kumar +3

The combination of high-throughput experimentation techniques and machine learning (ML) has recently ushered in a new era of accelerated material discovery, enabling the identifica…

physics.ins-det2023

Automated Electrokinetic Stretcher for Manipulating Nanomaterials

Beatrice W. Soh, Zi-En Ooi, Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin +2

In this work, we present an automated platform for trapping and stretching individual micro- and nanoscale objects in solution using electrokinetic forces. The platform can trap ob…

physics.app-ph2021

Accelerated automated screening of viscous graphene suspensions with various surfactants for optimal electrical conductivity

Daniil Bash, Frederick Hubert Chenardi, Zekun Ren +5

Functional composite thin films have a wide variety of applications in flexible and/or electronic devices, telecommunications and multifunctional emerging coatings. Rapid screening…