The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure generation methods

LM Hunnisett, J Nyman, N Francia, NS Abraham… - Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction was organized by the Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Centre featuring seven target systems of varying complexity: a silicon …

Accelerating structure prediction of molecular crystals using actively trained moment tensor potential

N Rybin, IS Novikov, A Shapeev - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the recent success of machine-learned interatomic potentials for crystal structure
prediction of inorganic crystals, we present a methodology that exploits moment tensor …

Pharmaceutical digital design: from chemical structure through crystal polymorph to conceptual crystallization process

CL Burcham, MF Doherty, BG Peters… - Crystal Growth & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A workflow for the digital design of crystallization processes starting from the chemical
structure of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is a multistep, multidisciplinary …

Polymorph sampling with coupling to extended variables: enhanced sampling of polymorph energy landscapes and free energy perturbation of polymorph ensembles

EJ Chan, ME Tuckerman - Structural Science, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
A novel approach to computationally enhance the sampling of molecular crystal structures is
proposed and tested. This method is based on the use of extended variables coupled to a …

Predicting 2D Crystal Packing in Thin Films of Small Molecule Organic Materials

AO Gudovannyy, JM Schäfer, O Gerdes… - Advanced Functional …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The large variety of structural morphologies realized in organic semiconductors is a big
challenge for the microscopic modeling of such systems. A global computational solution is …

Dispersionless Nonhybrid Density Functional

AU Rehman, K Szalewicz - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2025 - ACS Publications
A dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT+ D) method has been developed. It
includes a nonhybrid dispersionless generalized gradient approximation (GGA) functional …

Accurate Lattice Free Energies of Packing Polymorphs from Probabilistic Generative Models

E Olehnovics, YM Liu, N Mehio, AY Sheikh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Finite-temperature lattice free energy differences between polymorphs of molecular crystals
are fundamental to understanding and predicting the relative stability relationships …

Exploring Coformer Substitution in Cocrystallization: Griseofulvin and Phenol Derivatives

J Lässer, DE Braun - Crystal Growth & Design, 2025 - ACS Publications
This study investigates the cocrystallization of griseofulvin with phenolic coformers,
highlighting its feasibility and variability. In addition to the previously reported cocrystal of …

Structure, Cohesion Energetics, and Hydrogen Bonding Cooperativity in Fumaric Acid and Alkyl Fumarates: Insights from Experiment and Theory

AOL Évora, DF Valente-Matias… - Crystal Growth & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fumaric acid and alkyl fumarates are a family of structurally related compounds with a wide
spectrum of potential or effective therapeutic applications. The series consisting of fumaric …

A lot to unpack: a decade in high Z′ crystal structures

PG Waddell - CrystEngComm, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystal structures that form with more than one molecule in the asymmetric unit (Z′> 1) are
a fascinating and important, if overlooked, aspect of crystal engineering. With the recent …