AI-Assisted Rapid Crystal Structure Generation Towards a Target Local Environment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08224v1
• Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:47:36 GMT
• Title: AI-Assisted Rapid Crystal Structure Generation Towards a Target Local Environment
• Authors: Osman Goni Ridwan, Sylvain Pitié, Monish Soundar Raj, Dong Dai, Gilles Frapper, Hongfei Xue, Qiang Zhu,
• Abstract summary: We present a symmetry-informed AI generative approach called Local Environment Geometry-Oriented Crystal Generator (LEGO-xtal)<n>Our method generates initial structures using AI models trained on an augmented small dataset.<n>We demonstrate the effectiveness of LEGO-xtal by expanding from 25 known low-energy sp2 carbon allotropes to over 1,700, all within 0.5 eV/atom of the ground-state energy of graphite.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the field of material design, traditional crystal structure prediction approaches require extensive structural sampling through computationally expensive energy minimization methods using either force fields or quantum mechanical simulations. While emerging artificial intelligence (AI) generative models have shown great promise in generating realistic crystal structures more rapidly, most existing models fail to account for the unique symmetries and periodicity of crystalline materials, and they are limited to handling structures with only a few tens of atoms per unit cell. Here, we present a symmetry-informed AI generative approach called Local Environment Geometry-Oriented Crystal Generator (LEGO-xtal) that overcomes these limitations. Our method generates initial structures using AI models trained on an augmented small dataset, and then optimizes them using machine learning structure descriptors rather than traditional energy-based optimization. We demonstrate the effectiveness of LEGO-xtal by expanding from 25 known low-energy sp2 carbon allotropes to over 1,700, all within 0.5 eV/atom of the ground-state energy of graphite. This framework offers a generalizable strategy for the targeted design of materials with modular building blocks, such as metal-organic frameworks and next-generation battery materials.

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