The amorphous state as a frontier in computational materials design

Y Liu, A Madanchi, AS Anker, L Simine… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
One of the grand challenges in the physical sciences is to 'design'a material before it is ever
synthesized. There has been fast progress in predicting new solid-state compounds with the …

Device-scale atomistic modelling of phase-change memory materials

Y Zhou, W Zhang, E Ma, VL Deringer - Nature Electronics, 2023 - nature.com
Computer simulations can play a central role in the understanding of phase-change
materials and the development of advanced memory technologies. However, direct quantum …

How dynamics changes ammonia cracking on iron surfaces

S Perego, L Bonati, S Tripathi, M Parrinello - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Being rich in hydrogen and easy to transport, ammonia is a promising hydrogen carrier.
However, a microscopic characterization of the ammonia cracking reaction is still lacking …

High-throughput screening to identify two-dimensional layered phase-change chalcogenides for embedded memory applications

S Sun, X Wang, Y Jiang, Y Lei, S Zhang… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) are showing versatile possibilities in cutting-
edge applications, including non-volatile memory, neuromorphic computing, and nano …

Data efficient machine learning potentials for modeling catalytic reactivity via active learning and enhanced sampling

S Perego, L Bonati - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Simulating catalytic reactivity under operative conditions poses a significant challenge due
to the dynamic nature of the catalysts and the high computational cost of electronic structure …

Thermal conductivity predictions with foundation atomistic models

B Póta, P Ahlawat, G Csányi, M Simoncelli - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Advances in machine learning have led to the development of foundation models for
atomistic materials chemistry, enabling quantum-accurate descriptions of interatomic forces …

Computationally efficient machine-learned model for GST phase change materials via direct and indirect learning

OR Dunton, T Arbaugh, FW Starr - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
Phase change materials such as Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST) are ideal candidates for next-
generation, non-volatile, solid-state memory due to the ability to retain binary data in the …

The properties of solids:'If you want to understand function, study structure'

RO Jones - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
The importance of the structure-function relationship in molecular biology was confirmed
dramatically by the recent award of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry'for computational …

[HTML][HTML] Crystallization kinetics in Ge-rich GexTe alloys from large scale simulations with a machine-learned interatomic potential

D Baratella, O Abou El Kheir, M Bernasconi - Acta Materialia, 2025 - Elsevier
A machine-learned interatomic potential for Ge-rich Ge x Te alloys has been developed
aiming at uncovering the kinetics of phase separation and crystallization in these materials …

Reply to Lee and Elliott: Changes of bonding upon crystallization in phase change materials

JY Raty, C Bichara, CF Schön… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
In their letter, Lee and Elliott question the existence of a distinct class of glass-forming
materials (1) which are at variance with Zachariasen's conjecture, ie, form non-Zachariasen …