A large-scale nanocrystal database with aligned synthesis and properties enabling generative inverse design

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02424v1
• Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:27:40 GMT
• Title: A large-scale nanocrystal database with aligned synthesis and properties enabling generative inverse design
• Authors: Kai Gu, Yingping Liang, Senliang Peng, Aotian Guo, Haizheng Zhong, Ying Fu,
• Abstract summary: We present the construction of a large-scale, aligned Nanocrystal Synthesis-Property database.<n>Our work bridges the gap between unstructured literature and data-driven byproducts.<n>We also establish a powerful human-AI collaborative paradigm for accelerating nanocrystal discovery.
• Score: 13.264257933986677
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The synthesis of nanocrystals has been highly dependent on trial-and-error, due to the complex correlation between synthesis parameters and physicochemical properties. Although deep learning offers a potential methodology to achieve generative inverse design, it is still hindered by the scarcity of high-quality datasets that align nanocrystal synthesis routes with their properties. Here, we present the construction of a large-scale, aligned Nanocrystal Synthesis-Property (NSP) database and demonstrate its capability for generative inverse design. To extract structured synthesis routes and their corresponding product properties from literature, we develop NanoExtractor, a large language model (LLM) enhanced by well-designed augmentation strategies. NanoExtractor is validated against human experts, achieving a weighted average score of 88% on the test set, significantly outperforming chemistry-specialized (3%) and general-purpose LLMs (38%). The resulting NSP database contains nearly 160,000 aligned entries and serves as training data for our NanoDesigner, an LLM for inverse synthesis design. The generative capability of NanoDesigner is validated through the successful design of viable synthesis routes for both well-established PbSe nanocrystals and rarely reported MgF2 nanocrystals. Notably, the model recommends a counter-intuitive, non-stoichiometric precursor ratio (1:1) for MgF2 nanocrystals, which is experimentally confirmed as critical for suppressing byproducts. Our work bridges the gap between unstructured literature and data-driven synthesis, and also establishes a powerful human-AI collaborative paradigm for accelerating nanocrystal discovery.

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