arXiv:2607. 21660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating materials prediction and design by enabling efficient exploration of chemical and structural spaces, with particular promise for novel materials discovery.
By Xianyuan Liu, Charles Anjah, Benjamin E. Jolly, Jonathon F. S. Markanday, Joshua Berry, Haolin Wang, Nicola A. Morley, Robert D. J. Oliver, Alexandra J. Ramadan, Delvin Ce Zhang, Katerina A. Christofidou, Haiping Lu
arXiv:2601. 21527v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed materials discovery, enabling rapid exploration of chemical space through generative models and surrogate screening.
By Sajid Mannan, Rupert J. Myers, Rohit Batra, Rocio Mercado, Lothar Wondraczek, N. M. Anoop Krishnan
arXiv:2511. 14007v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) raises expectations of substantial increases in rates of technological progress, but such anticipations are often not connected to detailed ground-level studies of AI use in innovation processes.
By John P. Nelson, Olajide Olugbade, Philip Shapira, Justin B. Biddle
arXiv:2604. 22938v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The promise of data-driven materials discovery remains constrained by the scarcity of large, high-quality, and accessible experimental datasets.
By Zhanzhao Li, Kengran Yang, Qiyao He, Kai Gong
arXiv:2607. 11526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Material property prediction (MPP) infers key properties from chemical composition and structure, accelerating the discovery and optimization of novel materials.
By Hongxiao Li, Wanling Gao
arXiv:2607. 17100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An AI research agent can improve the score it sees without finding a modelling change that works on new materials.
By Jingjie Ning, Xiaochuan Li, Shanshan Zhong, Ji Zeng, Guolin Ke
arXiv:2606. 20753v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Polymeric materials underpin modern technologies spanning energy storage, microelectronics, healthcare and sustainable manufacturing.
By Chenyao Ma, Linda Zhang, Yuheng Chen, Wei Du, Shangwen Fang, Zihao Jiang, Chuanyu Liu, Xinyu Ma, Rui Su, Gang Wang, Muyao Yu, Dong Zhong, Jie Zhu, Weibo Gong, Huan Gu, Limin Li, Chen Shen, Rui Wu, Zhenghao Wu, Kan Xu, Min Zhou, Donglin He, Xiayun Huang, Shan Jiang, Pengfei Ou, Jiayu Peng, Yuwei Zhang, Jie Zhao, Di Zhang, Piao Ma, Zhenghao Li, Hao Li
arXiv:2607. 09806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific discovery, but its effectiveness is fundamentally limited by the availability of structured scientific knowledge.
By Dibakar Datta
arXiv:2608. 15776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the powerful multi-scale modeling methods and high-throughput infrastructures established in the materials community, real material computation workflows remain fragmented and heavily manual, requiring researchers to constantly bridge software tools, data analysis, and intermediate decisions.
By Hongfu Huang, Yuzhe Li, Ao Xu, Bo Liu, Changrui Wang, Kan Tang, Ning Yang, Shengxian Liu, Hanyu Liu, Pengpeng Zhang, Linggang Zhu, Fengkai Liu, Yichen Lu, Tong Zhao, Naihua Miao, Jian Zhou, Zhimei Sun
arXiv:2606. 29717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting a material's properties from its structure is a central, fast-advancing problem in computational materials science.
By Chenmu Zhang, Boris I. Yakobson
arXiv:2606. 07712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in AI-driven crystal materials science has so far been carried by narrow architectures purpose-built for individual tasks -- graph neural networks for property prediction, diffusion and flow-matching models for crystal generation -- each excelling within its niche yet unable to act as a shared backbone across the full spectrum of materials problems.
By Zhan'ao Yao, Boxuan Zhang, Jingyuan Shu, Xiaoyu Wu, Rongyan Wang, Linjing Li, Dajun Zeng, Yudong Yao, Tingwei Chen, Youwei Wang, Xiaolin Zhao, Jiahui Shi, Jianjun Liu
arXiv:2607. 26652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems requires rigorous documentation of their constituent artifacts, e.
By Federica Pepe, Daniele Bifolco, Costantino Martignetti, Aureliano D'Amici, Fabiano Izzo, Damian A. Tamburri, Massimiliano Di Penta