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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

AI-Guided Inverse Design and Discovery of Recyclable Vitrimeric Polymers.

Yiwen Zheng, Prakash Thakolkaran, Agni K Biswal, Jake A Smith, Ziheng Lu, Shuxin Zheng, Bichlien H Nguyen, Siddhant Kumar, Aniruddh Vashisth

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Polymer-Agent: Large Language Model Agent for Polymer Design.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  3. Learning nature's assembly language with polymers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. AI-Guided Inverse Design and Discovery of Recyclable Vitrimeric Polymers.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Yiwen ZhengDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Prakash ThakolkaranDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, CD, 2628, The Netherlands.
Agni K BiswalDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Jake A SmithMicrosoft Research, Redmond, WA, 98052, USA.
Ziheng LuMicrosoft Research Asia, Beijing, 100080, China.
Shuxin ZhengMicrosoft Research Asia, Beijing, 100080, China.
Bichlien H NguyenMicrosoft Research, Redmond, WA, 98052, USA.
Siddhant KumarDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, CD, 2628, The Netherlands.
Aniruddh VashisthDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4740-1296

Funding

Microsoft ResearchNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekUniversity of Washington
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitrimer is a new, exciting class of sustainable polymers with healing abilities due to their dynamic covalent adaptive networks. However, a limited choice of constituent molecules restricts their property space and potential applications. To overcome this challenge, an innovative approach coupling molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and a novel graph variational autoencoder (VAE) model for inverse design of vitrimer chemistries with desired glass transition temperature (T

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generative modelsmachine learningmaterials designmolecular dynamicsrecyclable polymersvitrimers

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PMID39686685
PMCPMC11809429

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