Nian Ran, Chengbo Li, Qinwen Cui, Dezhen Xue, Jianjun Liu
{"title":"Dynamic oxygen-redox evolution of cathode reactions based on the multistate equilibrium potential model","authors":"Nian Ran, Chengbo Li, Qinwen Cui, Dezhen Xue, Jianjun Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01714-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01714-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding the mechanisms of oxygen anion electrochemical reactions within crystals has long perplexed electrochemical scientists and hindered the structural design and composition optimization of Li-ion cathode materials. Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIP) are transforming the landscape by enabling high-accuracy atomistic modeling on a large scale in materials science and chemistry. The diversity and comprehensiveness of the dataset are fundamental to building a high-accuracy MLIP. Here, we constructed a Li<sub>1.2–<i>x</i></sub>Mn<sub>0.6</sub>Ni<sub>0.2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> (<i>x</i> = 0–1.04) dataset that includes over 15,000 chemical non-equilibrium and chemical equilibrium structures. Using this dataset, we trained an MLIP model (multistate equilibrium potential, named MSEP) with test accuracies of 0.008 eV/atom and 0.153 eV/Å for energy and force, respectively. Through MSEP-MD simulations, we identify a kinetically viable O-redox mechanism in which the formation of transient interlayer O<sub>2</sub><sup>2</sup><sup>−</sup>, O<sub>2</sub><sup>−</sup> or O<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> intermediates drives out-of-plane Mn and Ni migration, resulting in O<sub>2</sub> molecules forming within the bulk structure. O<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> intermediates have a certain ability to capture O<sub>2</sub>, which may help alleviate the formation of lattice O<sub>2</sub>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144547503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"$$widehat{P}widehat{{T}}$$ symmetry controlled magnetic order switching","authors":"Ziyu Niu, Jing Sun, Zekun Zhang, Xiaohong Zheng, Xixiang Jing, Jingjing Wan, Jing Wang, Junqin Shi, Li-min Liu, Weimin Liu, Xiaoli Fan, Tengfei Cao","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01699-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01699-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Precise electric control of magnetic order and anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) is pivotal for spintronics. While electric-field control of magnetic order and AHC has been explored in magneto-electric materials, achieving precise and energy-efficient magnetic order switching between two <span>(hat{P}hat{{T}})</span> symmetry-connected magnetic states remains challenging. Here, we propose the utilization of the combined <span>(widehat{P}widehat{{T}})</span> symmetry that establishes a direct connection between electric polarization and magnetic orders, to electrically manipulate magnetic order and the AHC. Using 3MnB₂T₄·2B₂T₃ (B = Sb/Bi, T = Se/Te) as an example, we demonstrate that the <span>(widehat{P}widehat{{T}})</span> connected <i>up-up-down</i> (UUD) and <i>up-down-down</i> (UDD) states exhibit switchable magnetic configurations via electric polarization. The energy difference between the UUD and UDD states is linearly modulated by electric polarizations, enabling full control of the magnetic states via electric field, spontaneous polarization, or even weak sliding ferroelectricity. The findings demonstrate that <span>(widehat{P}widehat{{T}})</span> symmetry can be well utilized to design electric polarization-controlled magnetic orders and will find important applications in spintronics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"647 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multi-objective synergistic design for low modulus and high yield strength in complex concentrated alloys","authors":"Qingfeng Yin, Yuan Wu, Honghui Wu, Xiaobin Zhang, Suihe Jiang, Hui Wang, Xiongjun Liu, Zhaoping Lu","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01713-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01713-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Low Young’s modulus and high yield strength are concurrently needed to meet the performance requirements of metallic implant materials. The single-objective performance-oriented alloy design strategies face challenges in effectively addressing the inherent conflict between Young’s modulus and yield strength. In this study, we developed a machine learning model for multi-objective synergistic optimization of modulus and yield strength, successfully enabling simultaneous prediction of Young’s modulus and yield strength in the Ti-Zr-Hf-Nb-Ta-Mo-Sn alloy system. The critical features influencing the modulus and strength of the alloys were systematically analyzed and identified. Moreover, a series of complex concentrated alloy (CCAs) with low Young’s modulus and high yield strength were successfully prepared based on this model. The newly developed alloys exhibited a stable single-phase BCC (body-centered-cubic) structure with Young’s modulus in the range of 40–50 GPa, yield strength of 600–915 MPa, and elastic admissible strain of approximately 1.5%. The multi-objective machine learning model developed in this study can synergistically optimize low Young’s modulus and high yield strength in complex alloys, providing a novel approach for the design of advanced biomedical alloys.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hayato Maeda, Stephen Wu, Rika Marui, Erina Yoshida, Kan Hatakeyama-Sato, Yuta Nabae, Shiori Nakagawa, Meguya Ryu, Ryohei Ishige, Yoh Noguchi, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Masashi Ishii, Isao Kuwajima, Felix Jiang, Xuan Thang Vu, Sven Ingebrandt, Masatoshi Tokita, Junko Morikawa, Ryo Yoshida, Teruaki Hayakawa
{"title":"Discovery of liquid crystalline polymers with high thermal conductivity using machine learning","authors":"Hayato Maeda, Stephen Wu, Rika Marui, Erina Yoshida, Kan Hatakeyama-Sato, Yuta Nabae, Shiori Nakagawa, Meguya Ryu, Ryohei Ishige, Yoh Noguchi, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Masashi Ishii, Isao Kuwajima, Felix Jiang, Xuan Thang Vu, Sven Ingebrandt, Masatoshi Tokita, Junko Morikawa, Ryo Yoshida, Teruaki Hayakawa","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01671-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01671-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Next-generation power electronics require efficient heat dissipation management, and molecular design guidelines are needed to develop polymers with high thermal conductivity. Polymer materials have considerably lower thermal conductivity than metals and ceramics due to phonon scattering in the amorphous region. The spontaneous orientation of the molecular chains of liquid crystalline polymers could potentially give rise to high thermal conductivity, but the molecular design of such polymers remains largely empirical. In this study, we developed a machine learning model that predicts with more than 96% accuracy whether liquid crystalline states will form based on the chemical structure of the polymer. By exploring the inverse mapping of this model, we identified a comprehensive set of chemical structures for liquid crystalline polyimides. The polymers were then experimentally synthesized, and the results confirmed that they form liquid crystalline phases, with all polymers exhibiting calculated thermal conductivities within the range of 0.722–1.26 W m<sup>−1</sup> K<sup>−1</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel J. R. Holt, Martin Lang, James C. Loudon, Thomas J. Hicken, Dieter Suess, David Cortés-Ortuño, Swapneel A. Pathak, Marijan Beg, Kauser Zulfiqar, Hans Fangohr
{"title":"Virtual experiments in computational magnetism with mag2exp","authors":"Samuel J. R. Holt, Martin Lang, James C. Loudon, Thomas J. Hicken, Dieter Suess, David Cortés-Ortuño, Swapneel A. Pathak, Marijan Beg, Kauser Zulfiqar, Hans Fangohr","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01686-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01686-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We have designed and implemented the Python package <span>mag2exp</span>, which enables researchers to perform a range of virtual experiments given a spatially resolved vector field for the magnetization, a typical result from computational methods to simulate magnetism such as micromagnetics. This software allows experimental measurements such as magnetometry, microscopy, and reciprocal space based techniques to be simulated in order to obtain observables that are comparable to those of the corresponding experimental measurement. Such virtual experiments tend to be more economic to carry out than actual experiments. There are many uses for virtual experiments, including (i) choosing the best experimental techniques and assessing their feasibility prior to experimentation, (ii) fine tuning experimental setup, (iii) guiding the experiment by conducting concurrent simulations of the measurement, and (iv) interpreting the experimental data at a later point though both qualitative and quantitative methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lukas Hörmann, Wojciech G. Stark, Reinhard J. Maurer
{"title":"Machine learning and data-driven methods in computational surface and interface science","authors":"Lukas Hörmann, Wojciech G. Stark, Reinhard J. Maurer","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01691-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01691-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Machine learning and data-driven methods have started to transform the study of surfaces and interfaces. Here, we review how data-driven methods and machine learning approaches complement simulation workflows and contribute towards tackling grand challenges in computational surface science from 2D materials to interface engineering and electrocatalysis. Challenges remain, including the scarcity of large datasets and the need for more electronic structure methods for interfaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Konstantin Köster, Tobias Binninger, Payam Kaghazchi
{"title":"Optimization of Coulomb energies in gigantic configurational spaces of multi-element ionic crystals","authors":"Konstantin Köster, Tobias Binninger, Payam Kaghazchi","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01690-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01690-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most of the novel energy materials contain multiple elements occupying a single site in their lattice. The exceedingly large configurational space of these materials imposes challenges in determining low(est) energy structures. Coulomb energies of possible configurations generally show a satisfactory correlation to computed energies at higher levels of theory and thus allow to screen for minimum-energy structures. Employing an expansion into a binary optimization problem, we obtain an efficient Coulomb energy optimizer using Monte Carlo and Genetic Algorithms. The presented optimization package, GOAC (Global Optimization of Atomistic Configurations by Coulomb), can achieve a speed up of several orders of magnitude compared to existing software. In this work, heuristic optimization on various material classes is performed. Thus, GOAC provides an efficient method for constructing low-energy atomistic models for ionic multi-element materials with gigantic configurational spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bowen Hou, Jinyuan Wu, Victor Chang Lee, Jiaxuan Guo, Luna Y. Liu, Diana Y. Qiu
{"title":"Data-driven low-rank approximation for the electron-hole kernel and acceleration of time-dependent GW calculations","authors":"Bowen Hou, Jinyuan Wu, Victor Chang Lee, Jiaxuan Guo, Luna Y. Liu, Diana Y. Qiu","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01680-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01680-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many-body interactions are essential for understanding non-linear optics and ultrafast spectroscopy of materials. Recent first principles approaches based on nonequilibrium Green’s function formalisms, such as the time-dependent adiabatic GW (TD-aGW) approach, can predict nonequilibrium dynamics of excited states including electron-hole interactions. However, the high-dimensionality of the electron-hole kernel poses significant computational challenges. Here, we develop a data-driven low-rank approximation for the electron-hole kernel, leveraging localized excitonic effects in the Hilbert space of crystalline systems to achieve significant data compression through singular value decomposition (SVD). We show that the subspace of non-zero singular values remains small even as the k-grid grows, ensuring computational tractability with extremely dense k-grids. This low-rank property enables at least 95% data compression and an order-of-magnitude speedup of TD-aGW calculations. Our approach avoids intensive training processes and eliminates time-accumulated errors, seen in previous approaches, providing a general framework for high-throughput, nonequilibrium simulation of light-driven dynamics in materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuzhi Xu, Daqian Bian, Cheng-Wei Ju, Fanyu Zhao, Pujun Xie, Yuanqing Wang, Wei Hu, Zhenrong Sun, John Z. H. Zhang, Tong Zhu
{"title":"Pretrained E(3)-equivariant message-passing neural networks with multi-level representations for organic molecule spectra prediction","authors":"Yuzhi Xu, Daqian Bian, Cheng-Wei Ju, Fanyu Zhao, Pujun Xie, Yuanqing Wang, Wei Hu, Zhenrong Sun, John Z. H. Zhang, Tong Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01698-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01698-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fast and accurate spectral prediction plays a crucial role in molecular design within fields such as pharmaceutical and materials science. Nevertheless, predicting molecular spectra typically requires quantum chemistry calculations, posing significant challenges for fast predictions and high-throughput screening. In this paper, we propose an equivariant, fast, and robust model, named EnviroDetaNet, which integrates molecular environment information. EnviroDetaNet employs an E(3)-equivariant message-passing neural network combining intrinsic atomic properties, spatial features, and environmental information, allowing it to comprehensively capture both local and global molecular information. Compared to state-of-the-art machine learning models, EnviroDetaNet excels in various predictive tasks and maintains high accuracy even with a 50% reduction in training data, demonstrating strong generalization capabilities. Ablation studies confirm that molecular environment information is crucial for improving model stability and accuracy. EnviroDetaNet also shows outstanding performance in spectral predictions for complex molecular systems, making it a powerful tool for accelerating molecular discovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning atomic forces from uncertainty-calibrated adversarial attacks","authors":"Henrique Musseli Cezar, Tilmann Bodenstein, Henrik Andersen Sveinsson, Morten Ledum, Simen Reine, Sigbjørn Løland Bore","doi":"10.1038/s41524-025-01703-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01703-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adversarial approaches, which intentionally challenge machine learning models by generating difficult examples, are increasingly being adopted to improve machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). While already providing great practical value, little is known about the actual prediction errors of MLIPs on adversarial structures and whether these errors can be controlled. We propose the Calibrated Adversarial Geometry Optimization (CAGO) algorithm to discover adversarial structures with user-assigned errors. Through uncertainty calibration, the estimated uncertainty of MLIPs is unified with real errors. By performing geometry optimization for calibrated uncertainty, we reach adversarial structures with the user-assigned target MLIP prediction error. Integrating with active learning pipelines, we benchmark CAGO, demonstrating stable MLIPs that systematically converge structural, dynamical, and thermodynamical properties for liquid water and water adsorption in a metal-organic framework within only hundreds of training structures, where previously many thousands were typically required.</p>","PeriodicalId":19342,"journal":{"name":"npj Computational Materials","volume":"646 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}