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20182026
most citedRecent Advances and Applications of Deep Learning Methods in Materials Science

1.2k citations · 4.5k across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Bridging Atomistic Simulation and Experimental Processing Timescales with Goal-Directed Deep Reinforcement Learning

Wonseok Jeong, Francesca Tavazza, Brian DeCost

Atomic-scale modeling has advanced rapidly through integration of machine learning, yet a key bottleneck remains. Even with an accurate potential energy surface and a clear target…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Materials Acceleration Platform for Electrochemistry: a Platform for Autonomous Electrochemistry

Daniel Persaud, Mike Werezak, Mark Xu +9

Corrosion testing is slow, labor-intensive, and sensitive to operator technique, limiting the generation of large, high-quality datasets for data-driven materials discovery. The Ma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

When Active Learning Fails, Uncalibrated Out of Distribution Uncertainty Quantification Might Be the Problem

Ashley S. Dale, Kangming Li, Brian DeCost +4

Efficiently and meaningfully estimating prediction uncertainty is important for exploration in active learning campaigns in materials discovery, where samples with high uncertainty…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Intrinsic Direct Air Capture

Austin McDannald, Daniel W. Siderius, Brian DeCost +2

We present new metrics to evaluate solid sorbent materials for Direct Air Capture (DAC). These new metrics provide a theoretical upper bound on CO2 captured per energy as well as a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 63 cited

Probing out-of-distribution generalization in machine learning for materials

Kangming Li, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Xiangyun Lei +5

Scientific machine learning (ML) endeavors to develop generalizable models with broad applicability. However, the assessment of generalizability is often based on heuristics. Here,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 23 cited

Efficient first principles based modeling via machine learning: from simple representations to high entropy materials

Kangming Li, Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost +2

High-entropy materials (HEMs) have recently emerged as a significant category of materials, offering highly tunable properties. However, the scarcity of HEM data in existing densit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Leveraging Domain Adaptation for Accurate Machine Learning Predictions of New Halide Perovskites

Dipannoy Das Gupta, Zachary J. L. Bare, Suxuen Yew +5

We combine graph neural networks (GNN) with an inexpensive and reliable structure generation approach based on the bond-valence method (BVM) to train accurate machine learning mode…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Learning material synthesis-process-structure-property relationship by data fusion: Bayesian Coregionalization N-Dimensional Piecewise Function Learning

A. Gilad Kusne, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost

Autonomous materials research labs require the ability to combine and learn from diverse data streams. This is especially true for learning material synthesis-process-structure-pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Approaches for Uncertainty Quantification of AI-predicted Material Properties: A Comparison

Francesca Tavazza, Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost

The development of large databases of material properties, together with the availability of powerful computers, has allowed machine learning (ML) modeling to become a widely used…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Accelerating Defect Predictions in Semiconductors Using Graph Neural Networks

Md Habibur Rahman, Prince Gollapalli, Panayotis Manganaris +5

Here, we develop a framework for the prediction and screening of native defects and functional impurities in a chemical space of Group IV, III-V, and II-VI zinc blende (ZB) semicon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

AutoEIS: automated Bayesian model selection and analysis for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

Runze Zhang, Robert Black, Debashish Sur +5

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a powerful tool for electrochemical analysis; however, its data can be challenging to interpret. Here, we introduce a new open-sourc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 39 cited

Recent progress in the JARVIS infrastructure for next-generation data-driven materials design

Daniel Wines, Ramya Gurunathan, Kevin F. Garrity +4

The Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations (JARVIS) infrastructure at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a large-scale collection o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 112 cited

On the redundancy in large material datasets: efficient and robust learning with less data

Kangming Li, Daniel Persaud, Kamal Choudhary +3

Extensive efforts to gather materials data have largely overlooked potential data redundancy. In this study, we present evidence of a significant degree of redundancy across multip…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 38 cited

Why is EXAFS analysis for multicomponent metals so hard? Challenges and opportunities for measuring ordering in complex concentrated alloys using x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Howie Joress, Bruce Ravel, Elaf Anber +5

Short range order is a critical driver of properties (e.g. corrosion resistance and tensile strength) in multicomponent alloys such as complex concentrated alloys (CCAs). Extended…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 24 cited

An experimental high-throughput to high-fidelity study towards discovering Al-Cr containing corrosion-resistant compositionally complex alloys

Debashish Sur, Emily F. Holcombe, William H. Blades +9

Compositionally complex alloys hold the promise of simultaneously attaining superior combinations of properties, such as corrosion resistance, light-weighting, and strength. Achiev…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 16 cited

AtomVision: A machine vision library for atomistic images

Kamal Choudhary, Ramya Gurunathan, Brian DeCost +1

Computer vision techniques have immense potential for materials design applications. In this work, we introduce an integrated and general-purpose AtomVision library that can be use…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 137 cited

A critical examination of robustness and generalizability of machine learning prediction of materials properties

Kangming Li, Brian DeCost, Kamal Choudhary +2

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) methods have led to substantial improvement in materials property prediction against community benchmarks, but an excellent benchmark score…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 120 cited

Unified Graph Neural Network Force-field for the Periodic Table

Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost, Lily Major +3

Classical force fields (FF) based on machine learning (ML) methods show great potential for large scale simulations of materials. MLFFs have hitherto largely been designed and fitt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Reproducible Sorbent Materials Foundry for Carbon Capture at Scale

Austin McDannald, Howie Joress, Brian DeCost +9

We envision an autonomous sorbent materials foundry (SMF) for rapidly evaluating materials for direct air capture of carbon dioxide (CO2), specifically targeting novel metal organi…

physics.ins-det2022★ 1 cited

Development of an automated millifluidic platform and data-analysis pipeline for rapid electrochemical corrosion measurements: a pH study on Zn-Ni

Howie Joress, Brian DeCost, Najlaa Hassan +3

We describe the development of a millifluidic based scanning droplet cell platform for rapid and automated corrosion. This system allows for measurement of corrosion properties (e.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Towards automated design of corrosion resistant alloy coatings with an autonomous scanning droplet cell

Brian DeCost, Howie Joress, Suchismita Sarker +2

We present an autonomous scanning droplet cell platform designed for on-demand alloy electrodeposition and real-time electrochemical characterization for investigating the corrosio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Reflections on the future of machine learning for materials research

Naohiro Fujinuma, Brian L. DeCost, Jason Hattrick-Simpers +1

Applied machine learning (ML) has rapidly spread throughout the physical sciences; in fact, ML-based data analysis and experimental decision-making has become commonplace. We sugge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 10 cited

Physics in the Machine: Integrating Physical Knowledge in Autonomous Phase-Mapping

A. Gilad Kusne, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost +5

Application of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically machine learning, to the physical sciences has expanded significantly over the past decades. In particular, scien…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 1.2k cited

Recent Advances and Applications of Deep Learning Methods in Materials Science

Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost, Chi Chen +10

Deep learning (DL) is one of the fastest growing topics in materials data science, with rapidly emerging applications spanning atomistic, image-based, spectral, and textual data mo…