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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2025

Explainable Synthesizability Prediction of Inorganic Crystal Polymorphs Using Large Language Models.

Seongmin Kim, Joshua Schrier, Yousung Jung

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Seongmin KimDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering (BK21 four), Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, South Korea.
Joshua SchrierDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Road, The Bronx, New York, 10458, USA.
Yousung JungDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering (BK21 four), Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, South Korea.

Funding

Basic Energy Sciences KC0302031Institute for Information and Communication Technology RS-2021-II211343National Research Foundation of Korea RS-2024-00464386National Research Foundation of Korea RS-2025-00514706
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluate the ability of machine learning to predict whether a hypothetical crystal structure can be synthesized and explain those predictions to scientists. Fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) trained on a human-readable text description of the target crystal structure perform comparably to previous bespoke convolutional graph neural network methods, but better prediction quality can be achieved by training a positive-unlabeled learning model on a text-embedding representation of the structure. An LLM-based workflow can then be used to generate human-readable explanations for the types of factors governing synthesizability, extract the underlying physical rules, and assess the veracity of those rules. These explanations can guide chemists in modifying or optimizing non-synthesizable hypothetical structures to make them more feasible for materials design.

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Crystal representationExplainabilityInorganicLarge language modelsSynthesizability

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PMID39943898
PMCPMC12051750

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