[HTML][HTML] The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure ranking methods

LM Hunnisett, N Francia, J Nyman, NS Abraham… - Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
A seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction has been organized by the Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Centre. The results are presented in two parts, with this second part …

Machine learning assisted prediction of organic salt structure properties

EP Shapera, DK Bučar, RP Prasankumar… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
We demonstrate a machine learning-based approach which predicts the properties of crystal
structures following relaxation based on the unrelaxed structure. Use of crystal graph …

Accelerating Structure Prediction of Molecular Crystals using Actively Trained Moment Tensor Potential

N Rybin, IS Novikov, AV Shapeev - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the recent success of machine-learned interatomic potentials for crystal structure
prediction of the 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 …

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 …

Implications of the multi-minima character of molecular crystal phases onto the free energy

M Krummenacher, M Sommer-Jörgensen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
In recent years, significant advancements in computational methods have dramatically
enhanced the precision in determining the energetic ranking of different phases of molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of the exchange-hole dipole moment dispersion correction for the energy ranking stage of the seventh crystal structure prediction blind test

RA Mayo, AJA Price, A Otero-de-la-Roza… - Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods substantially increased
the level of complexity of the target compounds relative to the previous tests organized by …