Awesome Materials
Materials is one of the most active areas in Awesome AI for Science β 4,224 papers in this collection, evaluated on datasets like Materials Project, QM9, MD17. A strong starting point is "A foundation model for atomistic materials chemistry".
Datasets & benchmarks
Key papers
- A foundation model for atomistic materials chemistry (2024)Ilyes Batatia et al.14.08
- i-PI 2.0: A Universal Force Engine for Advanced Molecular Simulations (2018)Venkat Kapil et al.13.35
- Ab initio thermodynamics of liquid and solid water (2018)Bingqing Cheng et al.13.23
- Artificial intelligence-driven approaches for materials design and discovery (2026)Mouyang Cheng et al.12.85
- Atom-Density Representations for Machine Learning (2018)Michael J. Willatt et al.11.69
- The Open Molecules 2025 (OMol25) Dataset, Evaluations, and Models (2025)Daniel S. Levine et al.11.16
- DeePMD-kit v3: A Multiple-Backend Framework for Machine Learning
Potentials (2025)Jinzhe Zeng et al.11.02
- Digital materials ecosystem: from databases to AI agents for autonomous discovery (2026)Di Zhang et al.9.81
- Space Group Informed Transformer for Crystalline Materials Generation (2024)Zhendong Cao et al.9.73
- UMA: A Family of Universal Models for Atoms (2025)Brandon M. Wood et al.9.52
- DenseGNN: universal and scalable deeper graph neural networks for
high-performance property prediction in crystals and molecules (2025)Hongwei Du et al.9.49
- PET-MAD, a lightweight universal interatomic potential for advanced materials modeling (2025)Arslan Mazitov et al.9.48
- Can KAN CANs? Input-convex Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as hyperelastic constitutive artificial neural networks (CANs) (2025)Prakash Thakolkaran et al.9.36
- Artificial Intelligence for Science in Quantum, Atomistic, and Continuum Systems (2023)Xuan Zhang et al.9.29
- Wyckoff Transformer: Generation of Symmetric Crystals (2025)Nikita Kazeev et al.9.15
- The Evolution of Machine Learning Potentials for Molecules, Reactions and Materials (2025)Junfan Xia et al.8.94
- Learning Smooth and Expressive Interatomic Potentials for Physical
Property Prediction (2025)Xiang Fu et al.8.94
- Machine Learning Potential for Electrochemical Interfaces with Hybrid Representation of Dielectric Response (2024)Jia-Xin Zhu and Jun Cheng8.91
- A universal augmentation framework for long-range electrostatics in machine learning interatomic potentials (2025)Dongjin Kim et al.8.80
- Cross Learning between Electronic Structure Theories for Unifying Molecular, Surface, and Inorganic Crystal Foundation Force Fields (2025)Ilyes Batatia et al.8.78
- AIβDriven Big Data Frameworks for ElectrodeβElectrolyte Interphases in Batteries (2026)Abdullah Bin Faheem et al.8.77
- Fine-Tuned Language Models Generate Stable Inorganic Materials as Text (2024)Nate Gruver et al.8.63
- Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package (2025)Joseph W. Abbott et al.8.58
- Advances in modeling complex materials: The rise of neuroevolution
potentials (2025)Penghua Ying et al.8.56
- A Graph Neural Network for the Era of Large Atomistic Models (2025)Duo Zhang et al.8.45
- Machine learning Hubbard parameters with equivariant neural networks (2024)Martin Uhrin et al.8.34
- A General Neural Network Potential for Energetic Materials with C, H, N,
and O elements (2025)Mingjie Wen et al.8.29
- Deep Learning Sheds Light on Integer and Fractional Topological
Insulators (2025)Xiang Li et al.8.29
- OmniScience: A Domain-Specialized LLM for Scientific Reasoning and
Discovery (2025)Vignesh Prabhakar et al.8.07
- PYSED: A tool for extracting kinetic-energy-weighted phonon dispersion and lifetime from molecular dynamics simulations (2025)Ting Liang et al.8.06
- Bayesian Optimization of Catalysis With In-Context Learning (2023)Mayk Caldas Ramos et al.8.05
- Regression with Large Language Models for Materials and Molecular Property Prediction (2024)Ryan Jacobs et al.7.99
- The Open DAC 2025 Dataset for Sorbent Discovery in Direct Air Capture (2025)Anuroop Sriram et al.7.97
- A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Accelerating the Design of Particulate Composites: Application to Thermal Conductivity (2020)Mohammad Saber Hashemi et al.7.91
- High-Throughput Computational Screening and Interpretable Machine
Learning of Metal-organic Frameworks for Iodine Capture (2025)Haoyi Tan et al.7.89
- High pressure hydrogen by machine learning and quantum Monte Carlo (2021)Andrea Tirelli et al.7.76
- Predicting Crack Nucleation and Propagation in Brittle Materials Using
Deep Operator Networks with Diverse Trunk Architectures (2025)Elham Kiyani (1) et al.7.71
- Molecular Quantum Chemical Data Sets and Databases for Machine Learning Potentials (2024)Arif Ullah et al.7.68
- System of Agentic AI for the Discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks (2025)Theo Jaffrelot Inizan et al.7.61
- Machine Learning and Data-Driven Methods in Computational Surface and Interface Science (2025)Lukas H\"ormann et al.7.55
- Advanced Space Mapping Technique Integrating a Shared Coarse Model for Multistate Tuning-Driven Multiphysics Optimization of Tunable Filters (2025)Haitian Hu et al.7.47
- Large Language Models to Accelerate Organic Chemistry Synthesis (2025)Yu Zhang et al.7.46
- Decoding the Competing Effects of Dynamic Solvation Structures on
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shifts of Battery Electrolytes via
Machine Learning (2025)Qi You et al.7.29
- A physics-informed Bayesian optimization method for rapid development of
electrical machines (2025)Pedram Asef and Christopher Vagg7.24
- Multimodal machine learning with large language embedding model for polymer property prediction (2025)Tianren Zhang and Dai-Bei Yang7.24
- MOFClassifier: A Machine Learning Approach for Validating Computation-Ready Metal-Organic Frameworks (2025)Guobin Zhao et al.7.24
- Self-Assembled Monolayers in p-i-n Perovskite Solar Cells: Molecular Design, Interfacial Engineering, and Machine Learning-Accelerated Material Discovery. (2026)Asmat Ullah et al.7.24
- Generalized invariants meet constitutive neural networks: A novel framework for hyperelastic materials (2025)Denisa Martonov\'a et al.7.17
- Exploring the design space of machine-learning models for quantum chemistry with a fully differentiable framework (2025)Divya Suman et al.7.13
- Does Hessian Data Improve the Performance of Machine Learning Potentials? (2025)Austin Rodriguez and Justin S. Smith and Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes7.07
- Pre-training, fine-tuning, and distillation (PFD): Automatically generating machine learning force fields from universal models (2025)Ruoyu Wang et al.7.02
- Towards Routine Condensed Phase Simulations with Delta-Learned Coupled Cluster Accuracy: Application to Liquid Water (2025)Niamh O'Neill et al.6.97
- High-performance training and inference for deep equivariant interatomic
potentials (2025)Chuin Wei Tan et al.6.95
- First-principles Hubbard parameters with automated and reproducible workflows (2025)Lorenzo Bastonero et al.6.89
- Materials Graph Library (MatGL), an open-source graph deep learning
library for materials science and chemistry (2025)Tsz Wai Ko et al.6.89
- Equivariant Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials with Global Charge Redistribution (2025)Moin Uddin Maruf and Sungmin Kim and Zeeshan Ahmad6.89
- Less can be more for predicting properties with large language models (2024)Nawaf Alampara et al.6.74
- A predictive machine learning force field framework for liquid
electrolyte development (2024)Sheng Gong et al.6.67
- Autofocused oracles for model-based design (2020)Clara Fannjiang and Jennifer Listgarten6.66
- MOFGPT: Generative Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks using Language Models (2025)Srivathsan Badrinarayanan et al.6.64