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most citedDriving and characterizing nucleation of urea and glycine polymorphs in water

46 citations · 100 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Graph Neural Network-State Predictive Information Bottleneck (GNN-SPIB) approach for learning molecular thermodynamics and kinetics

Ziyue Zou, Dedi Wang, Pratyush Tiwary

Molecular dynamics simulations offer detailed insights into atomic motions but face timescale limitations. Enhanced sampling methods have addressed these challenges but even with m…

cond-mat.soft2024

Simulating Crystallization in a Colloidal System Using State Predictive Information Bottleneck based Enhanced Sampling

Vanessa J. Meraz, Ziyue Zou, Pratyush Tiwary

We investigate crystal nucleation in supersaturated colloid suspensions using enhanced molecular dynamics simulations augmented with machine learning techniques. The simulations re…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

Enhanced sampling of Crystal Nucleation with Graph Representation Learnt Variables

Ziyue Zou, Pratyush Tiwary

In this study, we present a graph neural network-based learning approach using an autoencoder setup to derive low-dimensional variables from features observed in experimental cryst…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 18 cited

Is the Local Ion Density Sufficient to Drive NaCl Nucleation from the Melt and Aqueous Solution?

Ruiyu Wang, Shams Mehdi, Ziyue Zou +1

Even though nucleation is ubiquitous in different science and engineering problems, investigating nucleation is extremely difficult due to the complicated ranges of time and length…

cond-mat.soft2023

Quantifying the relevance of long-range forces for crystal nucleation in water

Renjie Zhao, Ziyue Zou, John D. Weeks +1

Understanding nucleation from aqueous solutions is of fundamental importance in a multitude of fields, ranging from materials science to biophysics. The complex solvent-mediated in…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 9 cited

Enhanced Sampling with Machine Learning: A Review

Shams Mehdi, Zachary Smith, Lukas Herron +2

Molecular dynamics (MD) enables the study of physical systems with excellent spatiotemporal resolution but suffers from severe time-scale limitations. To address this, enhanced sam…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 26 cited

Recent advances in describing and driving crystal nucleation using machine learning and artificial intelligence

Eric R. Beyerle, Ziyue Zou, Pratyush Tiwary

With the advent of faster computer processors and especially graphics processing units (GPUs) over the last few decades, the use of data-intensive machine learning (ML) and artific…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 46 cited

Driving and characterizing nucleation of urea and glycine polymorphs in water

Ziyue Zou, Eric Beyerle, Sun-Ting Tsai +1

Crystal nucleation is relevant across the domains of fundamental and applied sciences. However, in many cases its mechanism remains unclear due to a lack of temporal or spatial res…

cond-mat.soft2021

Towards automated sampling of polymorph nucleation and free energies with SGOOP and metadynamics

Ziyue Zou, Sun-Ting Tsai, Pratyush Tiwary

Understanding the driving forces behind the nucleation of different polymorphs is of great importance for material sciences and the pharmaceutical industry. This includes understan…