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ArticleScience advances2022

Inverse design of soft materials via a deep learning-based evolutionary strategy.

Gabriele M Coli, Emanuele Boattini, Laura Filion, Marjolein Dijkstra

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4 authors.

Gabriele M ColiSoft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5125-8007
Emanuele BoattiniSoft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1396-9577
Laura FilionSoft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9432-9680
Marjolein DijkstraSoft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9166-6478

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Abstract

Colloidal self-assembly—the spontaneous organization of colloids into ordered structures—has been considered key to produce next-generation materials. However, the present-day staggering variety of colloidal building blocks and the limitless number of thermodynamic conditions make a systematic exploration intractable. The true challenge in this field is to turn this logic around and to develop a robust, versatile algorithm to inverse design colloids that self-assemble into a target structure. Here, we introduce a generic inverse design method to efficiently reverse-engineer crystals, quasicrystals, and liquid crystals by targeting their diffraction patterns. Our algorithm relies on the synergetic use of an evolutionary strategy for parameter optimization, and a convolutional neural network as an order parameter, and provides a way forward for the inverse design of experimentally feasible colloidal interactions, specifically optimized to stabilize the desired structure.

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