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most citedForces are not Enough: Benchmark and Critical Evaluation for Machine Learning Force Fields with Molecular Simulations

170 citations · 818 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

AI-guided high-throughput discovery of iridium- and ruthenium-free palladium-oxide catalysts for durable acidic oxygen evolution

Ken J. Jenewein, Faezeh Habib Zadeh, Xiaoxiao Wang +19

Catalyzing acidic oxygen evolution at the proton-exchange-membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) anode relies almost entirely on iridium or ruthenium, drawn from concentrated supply c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Thermal Equilibrium Vacancy Concentration in an Alloy with Chemical Short-Range Order

Hao Tang, Hoje Chun, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli +2

The equilibrium vacancy concentration in multi-principal element alloys remains a controversial and nontrivial subject, primarily because of chemical complexity and chemical short-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

DiffSyn: A Generative Diffusion Approach to Materials Synthesis Planning

Elton Pan, Soonhyoung Kwon, Sulin Liu +9

The synthesis of crystalline materials, such as zeolites, remains a significant challenge due to a high-dimensional synthesis space, intricate structure-synthesis relationships and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Deep Learning of Mean First Passage Time Scape: Chemical Short-Range Order and Kinetics of Diffusive Relaxation

Hoje Chun, Hao Tang, Bin Xing +2

Processes slow compared to atomic vibrations pose significant challenges in atomistic simulations, particularly for phenomena such as diffusive relaxations and phase transitions, w…

physics.chem-ph2024

Symmetry-Constrained Generation of Diverse Low-Bandgap Molecules with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Akshay Subramanian, James Damewood, Juno Nam +3

Organic optoelectronic materials are a promising avenue for next-generation electronic devices due to their solution processability, mechanical flexibility, and tunable electronic…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Enhanced sampling of robust molecular datasets with uncertainty-based collective variables

Aik Rui Tan, Johannes C. B. Dietschreit, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

Generating a data set that is representative of the accessible configuration space of a molecular system is crucial for the robustness of machine learned interatomic potentials (ML…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 13 cited

Learning Collective Variables with Synthetic Data Augmentation through Physics-Inspired Geodesic Interpolation

Soojung Yang, Juno Nam, Johannes C. B. Dietschreit +1

In molecular dynamics simulations, rare events, such as protein folding, are typically studied using enhanced sampling techniques, most of which are based on the definition of a co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Learning a reactive potential for silica-water through uncertainty attribution

Swagata Roy, Johannes P. Dürholt, Thomas S. Asche +2

The reactivity of silicates in an aqueous solution is relevant to various chemistries ranging from silicate minerals in geology, to the C-S-H phase in cement, nanoporous zeolite ca…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 3 cited

Atom-by-atom design of metal oxide catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction with machine learning

Jaclyn R. Lunger, Jessica Karaguesian, Hoje Chun +6

Green hydrogen production is crucial for a sustainable future, but current catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) suffer from slow kinetics, despite many efforts to prod…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 2 cited

Effect of framework composition and NH3 on the diffusion of Cu+ in Cu-CHA catalysts predicted by machine-learning accelerated molecular dynamics

Reisel Millan, Estefania Bello-Jurado, Manual Moliner +2

Cu-exchanged zeolites rely on mobile solvated Cu+ cations for their catalytic activity, but the role of framework composition on transport is not fully understood. Ab initio molecu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 51 cited

Machine-learning-accelerated simulations to enable automatic surface reconstruction

Xiaochen Du, James K. Damewood, Jaclyn R. Lunger +4

Understanding material surfaces and interfaces is vital in applications like catalysis or electronics. By combining energies from electronic structure with statistical mechanics, a…

physics.chem-ph2023

Entropy and Energy Profiles of Chemical Reactions

Johannes C. B. Dietschreit, Dennis J. Diestler, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

The description of chemical processes at the molecular level is often facilitated by use of reaction coordinates, or collective variables (CVs). The CV measures the progress of the…

physics.chem-ph2023

Mapping the space of photoswitchable ligands and photodruggable proteins with computational modeling

Simon Axelrod, Eugene Shakhnovich, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Light-activated drugs are a promising way to localize biological activity and minimize side effects. However, their development is complicated by the numerous photophysical and bio…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 4 cited

Differentiable Simulations for Enhanced Sampling of Rare Events

Martin Šípka, Johannes C. B. Dietschreit, Lukáš Grajciar +1

Simulating rare events, such as the transformation of a reactant into a product in a chemical reaction typically requires enhanced sampling techniques that rely on heuristically ch…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Simulations with machine learning potentials identify the ion conduction mechanism mediating non-Arrhenius behavior in LGPS

Gavin Winter, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

LiGe(PS) (LGPS) is a highly concentrated solid electrolyte, in which Coulombic repulsion between neighboring cations is hypothesized as the underlying reason for con…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 170 cited

Forces are not Enough: Benchmark and Critical Evaluation for Machine Learning Force Fields with Molecular Simulations

Xiang Fu, Zhenghao Wu, Wujie Wang +4

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation techniques are widely used for various natural science applications. Increasingly, machine learning (ML) force field (FF) models begin to replace…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Examining graph neural networks for crystal structures: limitations and opportunities for capturing periodicity

Sheng Gong, Tian Xie, Yang Shao-Horn +2

Historically, materials informatics has relied on human-designed descriptors of materials structures. In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed for learning…

physics.chem-ph2022

Thermal half-lives of azobenzene derivatives: virtual screening based on intersystem crossing using a machine learning potential

Simon Axelrod, Eugene Shakhnovich, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

Molecular photoswitches are the foundation of light-activated drugs. A key photoswitch is azobenzene, which exhibits trans-cis isomerism in response to light. The thermal half-life…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 29 cited

From Free-Energy Profiles to Activation Free Energies

Johannes C. B. Dietschreit, Dennis J. Diestler, Andreas Hulm +2

Given a chemical reaction going from reactant (R) to the product (P) on a potential energy surface (PES) and a collective variable (CV) that discriminates between R and P, one can…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 94 cited

Excited state, non-adiabatic dynamics of large photoswitchable molecules using a chemically transferable machine learning potential

Simon Axelrod, Eugene Shakhnovich, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Light-induced chemical processes are ubiquitous in nature and have widespread technological applications. For example, photoisomerization can allow a drug with a photo-switchable s…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021

Sampling Lattices in Semi-Grand Canonical Ensemble with Autoregressive Machine Learning

James Damewood, Daniel Schwalbe-Koda, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

Calculating thermodynamic potentials and observables efficiently and accurately is key for the application of statistical mechanics simulations to materials science. However, naive…

cs.LG2021★ 20 cited

An End-to-End Framework for Molecular Conformation Generation via Bilevel Programming

Minkai Xu, Wujie Wang, Shitong Luo +4

Predicting molecular conformations (or 3D structures) from molecular graphs is a fundamental problem in many applications. Most existing approaches are usually divided into two ste…

cs.LG2021★ 79 cited

Differentiable sampling of molecular geometries with uncertainty-based adversarial attacks

Daniel Schwalbe-Koda, Aik Rui Tan, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Neural network (NN) interatomic potentials provide fast prediction of potential energy surfaces, closely matching the accuracy of the electronic structure methods used to produce t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 83 cited

Accelerating amorphous polymer electrolyte screening by learning to reduce errors in molecular dynamics simulated properties

Tian Xie, Arthur France-Lanord, Yanming Wang +8

Polymer electrolytes are promising candidates for the next generation lithium-ion battery technology. Large scale screening of polymer electrolytes is hindered by the significant c…