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20182025
most citedCrystallography companion agent for high-throughput materials discovery

100 citations · 191 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.app-ph2025

A modular framework for collaborative human-AI, multi-modal and multi-beamline synchrotron experiments

Adam A. Corrao, Phillip M. Maffettone, Bruce Ravel +5

High-throughput materials discovery and studies of complex functional materials increasingly rely on multi-modal characterization performed at synchrotron light sources. However, m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Emulating Expert Insight: A Robust Strategy for Optimal Experimental Design

Matthew R. Carbone, Hyeong Jin Kim, Chandima Fernando +7

The challenge of optimal design of experiments (DOE) pervades materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology. Bayesian optimization has been used to address this challenge in v…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Accurate, uncertainty-aware classification of molecular chemical motifs from multi-modal X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Matthew R. Carbone, Phillip M. Maffettone, Xiaohui Qu +2

Accurate classification of molecular chemical motifs from experimental measurement is an important problem in molecular physics, chemistry and biology. In this work, we present neu…

q-bio.BM2023★ 3 cited

Inverse Protein Folding Using Deep Bayesian Optimization

Natalie Maus, Yimeng Zeng, Daniel Allen Anderson +5

Inverse protein folding -- the task of predicting a protein sequence from its backbone atom coordinates -- has surfaced as an important problem in the "top down", de novo design of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

What is missing in autonomous discovery: Open challenges for the community

Phillip M. Maffettone, Pascal Friederich, Sterling G. Baird +16

Self-driving labs (SDLs) leverage combinations of artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced computing to accelerate scientific discovery. The promise of this field has give…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Self-driving Multimodal Studies at User Facilities

Phillip M. Maffettone, Daniel B. Allan, Stuart I. Campbell +11

Multimodal characterization is commonly required for understanding materials. User facilities possess the infrastructure to perform these measurements, albeit in serial over days t…

cs.LG2022★ 22 cited

Accelerating Bayesian Optimization for Biological Sequence Design with Denoising Autoencoders

Samuel Stanton, Wesley Maddox, Nate Gruver +4

Bayesian optimization (BayesOpt) is a gold standard for query-efficient continuous optimization. However, its adoption for drug design has been hindered by the discrete, high-dimen…

cs.LG2022

Machine learning enabling high-throughput and remote operations at large-scale user facilities

Tatiana Konstantinova, Phillip M. Maffettone, Bruce Ravel +3

Imaging, scattering, and spectroscopy are fundamental in understanding and discovering new functional materials. Contemporary innovations in automation and experimental techniques…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Deep learning for visualization and novelty detection in large X-ray diffraction datasets

Lars Banko, Phillip M. Maffettone, Dennis Naujoks +2

We apply variational autoencoders (VAE) to X-ray diffraction (XRD) data analysis on both simulated and experimental thin-film data. We show that crystal structure representations l…

physics.app-ph2021★ 32 cited

Constrained non-negative matrix factorization enabling real-time insights of and high-throughput experiments

Phillip M. Maffettone, Aidan C. Daly, Daniel Olds

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) methods offer an appealing unsupervised learning method for real-time analysis of streaming spectral data in time-sensitive data collection,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 100 cited

Crystallography companion agent for high-throughput materials discovery

Phillip M. Maffettone, Lars Banko, Peng Cui +5

The discovery of new structural and functional materials is driven by phase identification, often using X-ray diffraction (XRD). Automation has accelerated the rate of XRD measurem…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 30 cited

Negative Hydration Expansion in ZrW2O8: Microscopic Mechanism, Spaghetti Dynamics, and Negative Thermal Expansion

Mia Baise, Phillip M. Maffettone, Fabien Trousselet +3

We use a combination of X-ray diffraction, total scattering and quantum mechanical calculations to determine the mechanism responsible for hydration-driven contraction in ZrWO$…

cond-mat.soft2018

Extreme cooperative swelling in topologically disordered fibre entanglements

Alistair R. Overy, Raj Pandya, Phillip M. Maffettone +3

Entangled states are ubiquitous amongst fibrous materials, whether naturally occurring (keratin, collagen, DNA) or synthetic (nanotube assemblies, elastane). A key mechanical chara…