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:2605. 26179v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting algorithms when convergence stalls, revising plans when unexpected physics emerges, and inserting steps as intermediate results reshape the problem.
By Penghui Yang, Zhonghan Zhang, Yue Li, Xinrun Wang, Yanchen Deng, Yuhao Lu, Bijun Tang, Zheng Liu, Bo An
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:2512. 11935v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic AI systems increasingly connect large language models (LLMs) to external scientific tools, yet whether and when tool access improves prediction accuracy remains uncharacterized.
By Jaehyung Lee, Justin Ely, Kent Zhang, Akshaya Ajith, Charles Rhys Campbell, Kamal Choudhary
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