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Heterogeneous ensemble enables a universal uncertainty metric for atomistic foundation models 异构集成为原子基础模型提供了通用的不确定性度量
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01905-x
Kai Liu, Zixiong Wei, Wei Gao, Poulumi Dey, Marcel H. F. Sluiter, Fei Shuang
Universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) are emerging as foundation models for atomistic simulation, offering near-ab initio accuracy at far lower cost. Their safe, broad deployment is limited by the absence of reliable, general uncertainty estimates. We present a unified, scalable uncertainty metric, U, built from a heterogeneous ensemble that reuses existing pretrained MLIPs. Across diverse chemistries and structures, U strongly tracks true prediction errors and robustly ranks configuration-level risk. Using U, we perform uncertainty-aware distillation to train system-specific potentials with far fewer labels: for tungsten, we match full density-functional-theory (DFT) training using 4% of the DFT data; for MoNbTaW, a dataset distilled by U supports high-accuracy potential training. By filtering numerical label noise, the distilled models can in some cases exceed the accuracy of the MLIPs trained on DFT data. This framework provides a practical reliability monitor and guides data selection and fine-tuning, enabling cost-efficient, accurate, and safer deployment of foundation models.
通用机器学习原子间势(uMLIPs)正在成为原子模拟的基础模型,以低得多的成本提供接近从头计算的精度。由于缺乏可靠的、普遍的不确定性估计,它们的安全、广泛部署受到了限制。我们提出了一个统一的、可扩展的不确定性度量U,它建立在重用现有预训练mlip的异构集成之上。在不同的化学物质和结构中,U强有力地跟踪真实的预测错误,并对配置级风险进行强大的排名。使用U,我们执行不确定性感知蒸馏,以更少的标签训练系统特定势:对于钨,我们使用4%的DFT数据匹配全密度泛函理论(DFT)训练;对于MoNbTaW, U提炼的数据集支持高精度的潜力训练。通过过滤数字标签噪声,提取的模型在某些情况下可以超过在DFT数据上训练的mlip的精度。该框架提供了实用的可靠性监控,并指导数据选择和微调,使基础模型的部署具有成本效益、准确性和安全性。
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Autonomous thermodynamically informed database generation for machine-learned interatomic potentials and application to magnesium 机器学习原子间势的自主热力学信息数据库生成及其在镁中的应用
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01903-z
Vincent G. Fletcher, Albert P. Bartók, Livia B. Pártay
We propose a novel approach for constructing training databases for Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential (MLIP) models, specifically designed to capture phase properties across a wide range of conditions. The framework is uniquely appealing due to its ease of automation, its suitability for iterative learning, and its independence from prior knowledge of stable phases, avoiding bias towards pre-existing structural data. The approach uses Nested Sampling (NS) to explore the configuration space and generate thermodynamically relevant configurations, forming the database which undergoes ab initio Density Functional Theory (DFT) evaluation. We use the Atomic Cluster Expansion (ACE) architecture to fit a model on the resulting database. To demonstrate the efficiency of the framework, we apply it to magnesium, developing a model capable of accurately describing behaviour across pressure and temperature ranges of 0–600 GPa and 0–8000 K, respectively. We benchmark the model’s performance by calculating phonon spectra and elastic constants, as well as the pressure-temperature phase diagram within this region. The results showcase the power of the framework to produce robust MLIPs while maintaining transferability and generality, for reduced computational cost. UK Ministry of Defence ©Crown Owned Copyright 2025/AWE
我们提出了一种新的方法来构建机器学习原子间势(MLIP)模型的训练数据库,专门用于捕获各种条件下的相属性。该框架具有独特的吸引力,因为它易于自动化,适合迭代学习,并且独立于稳定阶段的先验知识,避免了对预先存在的结构数据的偏见。该方法利用嵌套采样(Nested Sampling, NS)来探索构型空间并生成热力学相关的构型,形成数据库并进行从头算密度泛函理论(DFT)评估。我们使用原子集群扩展(ACE)架构在结果数据库上拟合模型。为了证明该框架的有效性,我们将其应用于镁,开发了一个能够准确描述0-600 GPa和0-8000 K压力和温度范围内行为的模型。我们通过计算声子谱和弹性常数以及该区域内的压力-温度相图来衡量模型的性能。结果表明,该框架能够在保持可移植性和通用性的同时产生健壮的mlip,从而降低计算成本。英国国防部©皇家所有版权2025/AWE
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An efficient forgetting-aware fine-tuning framework for pretrained universal machine-learning interatomic potentials 预训练通用机器学习原子间势的有效遗忘意识微调框架
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01895-w
Jisu Kim, Jiho Lee, Sangmin Oh, Yutack Park, Seungwoo Hwang, Seungwu Han, Sungwoo Kang, Youngho Kang
Pretrained universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have revolutionized computational materials science by enabling rapid atomistic simulations as efficient alternatives to ab initio methods. Fine-tuning pretrained MLIPs offers a practical approach to improving accuracy for materials and properties where predictive performance is insufficient. However, this approach often induces catastrophic forgetting, undermining the generalizability that is a key advantage of pretrained MLIPs. Herein, we propose reEWC, an advanced fine-tuning strategy that integrates Experience Replay and Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) to effectively balance forgetting prevention with fine-tuning efficiency. Using Li6PS5Cl (LPSC), a sulfide-based Li solid-state electrolyte, as a fine-tuning target, we show that reEWC significantly improves the accuracy of a pretrained MLIP, resolving well-known issues of potential energy surface softening and overestimated Li diffusivities. Moreover, reEWC preserves the generalizability of the pretrained MLIP and enables knowledge transfer to chemically distinct systems, including other sulfide, oxide, nitride, and halide electrolytes. Compared to Experience Replay and EWC used individually, reEWC delivers clear synergistic benefits, mitigating their respective limitations while maintaining computational efficiency. These results establish reEWC as a robust and effective solution for continual learning in MLIPs, enabling universal models that can advance materials research through large-scale, high-throughput simulations across diverse chemistries.
预训练的通用机器学习原子间势(MLIPs)通过实现快速原子模拟作为从头计算方法的有效替代方案,彻底改变了计算材料科学。微调预训练mlip为提高预测性能不足的材料和性能的准确性提供了实用的方法。然而,这种方法往往会导致灾难性遗忘,破坏了预训练mlip的关键优势——可泛化性。在此,我们提出了reEWC,一种集成了经验回放和弹性重量巩固(EWC)的高级微调策略,以有效地平衡遗忘预防和微调效率。使用Li6PS5Cl (LPSC),一种硫化物基锂固态电解质作为微调目标,我们发现reEWC显著提高了预训练MLIP的准确性,解决了众所周知的势能表面软化和高估锂扩散率的问题。此外,reEWC保留了预训练MLIP的通用性,并能够将知识转移到化学不同的系统,包括其他硫化物、氧化物、氮化物和卤化物电解质。与单独使用的Experience Replay和EWC相比,reEWC具有明显的协同效益,在保持计算效率的同时减轻了各自的局限性。这些结果表明,reEWC是MLIPs中持续学习的强大而有效的解决方案,实现了通用模型,可以通过跨不同化学物质的大规模、高通量模拟来推进材料研究。
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DONUT: physics-aware machine learning for real-time X-ray nanodiffraction analysis DONUT:用于实时x射线纳米衍射分析的物理感知机器学习
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01860-7
Aileen Luo, Tao Zhou, Ming Du, Martin V. Holt, Andrej Singer, Mathew J. Cherukara
Coherent X-ray scattering techniques are critical for investigating the fundamental structural properties of materials at the nanoscale. While advancements have made these experiments more accessible, real-time analysis remains a significant bottleneck, often hindered by artifacts and computational demands. In scanning X-ray nanodiffraction microscopy, which is widely used to spatially resolve structural heterogeneities, this challenge is compounded by the convolution of the divergent beam with the sample’s local structure. To address this, we introduce DONUT (Diffraction with Optics for Nanobeam by Unsupervised Training), a physics-aware neural network designed for the rapid and automated analysis of nanobeam diffraction data. By incorporating a differentiable geometric diffraction model directly into its architecture, DONUT learns to predict crystal lattice strain and orientation in real-time. Crucially, this is achieved without reliance on labeled datasets or pre-training, overcoming a fundamental limitation for supervised machine learning in X-ray science. We demonstrate experimentally that DONUT accurately extracts all features within the data over 200 times more efficiently than conventional fitting methods.
相干x射线散射技术对于研究纳米尺度材料的基本结构特性至关重要。虽然进步使这些实验更容易获得,但实时分析仍然是一个重要的瓶颈,经常受到工件和计算需求的阻碍。在扫描x射线纳米衍射显微镜中,这一挑战由于发散光束与样品局部结构的卷积而变得更加复杂。扫描x射线纳米衍射显微镜被广泛用于空间解析结构异质性。为了解决这个问题,我们引入了DONUT (Unsupervised Training with Optics for Nanobeam Diffraction),这是一个物理感知的神经网络,旨在快速、自动地分析纳米束衍射数据。通过将可微的几何衍射模型直接集成到其结构中,DONUT可以实时学习预测晶格应变和取向。至关重要的是,这是在不依赖标记数据集或预训练的情况下实现的,克服了x射线科学中监督机器学习的基本限制。实验证明,与传统拟合方法相比,DONUT准确提取数据中的所有特征的效率提高了200倍以上。
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Design rule for morphotropic phase boundary formation in Hf-based material system with high permittivity, low leakage and low thermal budget 高介电常数、低漏损、低热收支的hf基材料体系中致形相边界形成的设计准则
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01908-8
Maokun Wu, Sheng Ye, Xuepei Wang, Jinhao Liu, Yilin Hu, Haobo Lin, Boyao Cui, Yichen Wen, Yishan Wu, Ting Zhang, Hong Dong, Feng Lu, Wei-Hua Wang, Pengpeng Ren, Hong-Liang Lu, Zhongming Liu, Runsheng Wang, Zhigang Ji
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Generative active learning across polymer architectures and solvophobicities for targeted rheological behavior 针对目标流变行为的聚合物结构和疏溶剂性的生成主动学习
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01900-2
Shengli Jiang, Michael A. Webb
Modifying solution viscosity is a key functional application of polymers, yet the interplay of molecular chemistry, polymer architecture, and intermolecular interactions makes tailoring precise rheological responses challenging. We introduce a computational framework coupling topology-aware generative machine learning, Gaussian process modeling, and multiparticle collision dynamics to design polymers yielding prescribed shear-rate-dependent viscosity profiles. Targeting thirty rheological profiles of varying difficulty, Bayesian optimization identifies polymers that satisfy all low- and most medium-difficulty targets by modifying topology and solvophobicity, with other variables fixed. In these regimes, we find and explain design degeneracy, where distinct polymers produce near-identical rheological profiles. However, satisfying high-difficulty targets requires extrapolation beyond the initial constrained design space; this is rationally guided by physical scaling theories. This integrated framework establishes a data-driven yet mechanistic route to rational polymer design.
改性溶液粘度是聚合物的关键功能应用,但分子化学、聚合物结构和分子间相互作用的相互作用使得定制精确的流变反应具有挑战性。我们引入了一个计算框架耦合拓扑感知生成机器学习,高斯过程建模和多粒子碰撞动力学来设计产生规定剪切速率相关粘度曲线的聚合物。针对30种不同难度的流变谱,贝叶斯优化通过修改拓扑和疏溶剂性,在其他变量固定的情况下,识别出满足所有低难度和大多数中等难度目标的聚合物。在这些制度中,我们发现并解释了设计简并,其中不同的聚合物产生几乎相同的流变剖面。然而,满足高难度目标需要在最初受限的设计空间之外进行推断;这是由物理标度理论合理指导的。这个集成的框架建立了一个数据驱动的机械路线,以实现合理的聚合物设计。
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General strategy for activating ferroelectricity in bilayer 2D materials with intercalating inert atoms 在嵌入惰性原子的双层二维材料中激活铁电的一般策略
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01909-7
Wenqi Xiong, Yu Jia
Activating ferroelectricity in two-dimensional (2D) bilayer materials is essential for enabling non-volatile memory and logic functionalities. While interlayer sliding driven by van der Waals interactions can break inversion symmetry, achieving out-of-plane (OOP) polarization through this mechanism remains challenging in highly symmetric 2D materials—particularly those that are centrosymmetric, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Here, we propose a general strategy to activate OOP ferroelectricity by intercalating inert atoms into the interlayer space. Using bilayer graphene, hBN, and MoS2 as model systems, we reveal that such intercalation lowers the symmetry from nonpolar D3d to polar C3v, enabling reversible polarization switching via lateral displacement of the intercalants. This resulting semi-sliding ferroelectricity preserves the structural and electronic integrity of the host materials, and features ultralow switching barriers along with atomic-scale dipole control—where each intercalated atom acts as an independent, reversible memory bit. Importantly, the polarization magnitude scales linearly with the electrostatic potential difference across the bilayer, providing a quantitative and tunable design rule. Our findings establish a universal and material-agnostic framework for realizing low-power, ultrahigh-density 2D ferroelectric devices on otherwise nonpolar platforms.
激活二维(2D)双层材料中的铁电性对于实现非易失性存储器和逻辑功能至关重要。虽然由范德华相互作用驱动的层间滑动会破坏反转对称,但在高度对称的二维材料中,通过这种机制实现面外极化仍然具有挑战性,特别是那些中心对称的材料,如石墨烯、六方氮化硼(hBN)和过渡金属二硫属化合物(TMDs)。在这里,我们提出了一种通过在层间空间插入惰性原子来激活OOP铁电性的一般策略。利用双层石墨烯、hBN和MoS2作为模型体系,我们发现这种嵌入降低了从非极性D3d到极性C3v的对称性,通过插入物的横向位移实现了可逆的极化切换。由此产生的半滑动铁电保留了主体材料的结构和电子完整性,并具有超低的开关势垒以及原子尺度的偶极子控制,其中每个插入原子充当独立的,可逆的存储位。重要的是,极化幅度与双层间的静电电位差呈线性关系,提供了定量和可调的设计规则。我们的研究结果为在非极性平台上实现低功耗、超高密度的二维铁电器件建立了一个通用的、与材料无关的框架。
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Coarse-grained machine learning potential for mesoscale multilayered graphene 中尺度多层石墨烯的粗粒度机器学习潜力
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01849-2
Mingqian Li, Lifeng Wang, Zhuoqun Zheng
A coarse-grained neuroevolution potential (CGNEP) for multilayered graphene based on an ab initio accuracy dataset is developed for mesoscale molecular dynamics simulations. The information loss in coarsening process is discussed and divided into intralayer part and interlayer part. The CGNEP describes the interlayer shear introduced by van der Waals interactions well by modifying the descriptor of NEP. The mechanical properties and vibration frequencies of structures of different sizes are well predicted via CGNEP. Compared with the traditional empirical CG potential, the CGNEP possesses interlayer properties of the structure of graphene and maintains the ability for higher mapping ratio coarsening. The frequencies of a 12-layer graphene membrane with a length and width of 1 μm are directly calculated via the CGNEP with a 64:1 mapping ratio and compared with the experimental results. The proposed CGNEP may be further used for other multilayered CG 2D materials.
基于从头算精度数据集开发了多层石墨烯的粗粒度神经进化潜力(CGNEP),用于中尺度分子动力学模拟。讨论了粗化过程中的信息损失,并将其分为层内部分和层间部分。CGNEP通过对NEP描述符的修改,较好地描述了范德华相互作用引入的层间剪切。利用CGNEP可以很好地预测不同尺寸结构的力学性能和振动频率。与传统的经验CG势相比,CGNEP具有石墨烯结构的层间特性,并保持了更高映射比粗化的能力。利用CGNEP以64:1的映射比直接计算了长度和宽度分别为1 μm的12层石墨烯膜的频率,并与实验结果进行了比较。建议的CGNEP可以进一步用于其他多层CG 2D材料。
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Unveiling nano-scale crystal deformation using coherent X-ray dynamical diffraction 利用相干x射线动态衍射揭示纳米级晶体变形
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01858-1
Longlong Wu, David Yang, Wei Wang, Shinjae Yoo, Ross J. Harder, Wonsuk Cha, Aiguo Li, Ian K. Robinson
Visualization of internal deformation fields in crystalline materials helps bridge the gap between theoretical models and practical applications. Applying Bragg coherent diffraction imaging under X-ray dynamical diffraction conditions provides a promising approach to the longstanding challenge of investigating the deformation fields in micron-sized crystals. Here, we present an automatic differentiation-based reconstruction method that integrates dynamical scattering theory to accurately reconstruct deformation fields in large crystals. Using this forward model, our simulated and experimental results demonstrate that three-dimensional local strain information inside a large crystal can be accurately reconstructed under coherent X-ray dynamical diffraction conditions with Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging. These findings open an avenue for extending the investigation of local deformation fields to microscale crystals while maintaining nanoscale resolution, leveraging the enhanced coherence and brightness of advanced X-ray sources.
晶体材料内部变形场的可视化有助于弥合理论模型与实际应用之间的差距。在x射线动态衍射条件下应用布拉格相干衍射成像为研究微米尺寸晶体的变形场提供了一种有希望的方法。本文提出了一种结合动态散射理论的基于自动微分的大晶体形变场重建方法。利用该正演模型,我们的模拟和实验结果表明,在相干x射线动态衍射条件下,利用布拉格相干x射线衍射成像可以准确地重建大晶体内部的三维局部应变信息。这些发现为将局部变形场的研究扩展到微尺度晶体,同时保持纳米级分辨率,利用先进x射线源增强的相干性和亮度开辟了一条途径。
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Deep-learning atomistic semi-empirical pseudopotential model for nanomaterials 纳米材料的深度学习原子半经验伪势模型
IF 9.7 1区 材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Pub Date : 2025-12-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41524-025-01862-5
Kailai Lin, Matthew J. Coley-O’Rourke, Eran Rabani
The semi-empirical pseudopotential method (SEPM) has been widely applied to provide computational insights into the electronic structure, photophysics, and charge carrier dynamics of nanoscale materials. We present “DeepPseudopot”, a machine-learned atomistic pseudopotential model that extends the SEPM framework by combining a flexible neural network representation of the local pseudopotential with parameterized non-local and spin-orbit coupling terms. Trained on bulk quasiparticle band structures and deformation potentials from GW calculations, the model captures many-body and relativistic effects with very high accuracy across diverse semiconducting materials, as illustrated for silicon and group III-V semiconductors. DeepPseudopot’s accuracy, efficiency, and transferability make it well-suited for data-driven in silico design and discovery of novel optoelectronic nanomaterials.
半经验赝势方法(SEPM)已被广泛应用于研究纳米材料的电子结构、光物理和载流子动力学。我们提出了“DeepPseudopot”,这是一个机器学习的原子伪势模型,通过将局部伪势的灵活神经网络表示与参数化的非局部和自旋轨道耦合项相结合,扩展了SEPM框架。基于体准粒子带结构和GW计算的变形势,该模型以非常高的精度捕获了不同半导体材料的多体和相对论效应,如硅和III-V族半导体所示。deepseudopot的准确性、效率和可转移性使其非常适合数据驱动的硅设计和新型光电纳米材料的发现。
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