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ArticleDigital discovery2026

MC3D: the Materials Cloud computational database of experimentally known stoichiometric inorganics.

Sebastiaan P Huber, Michail Minotakis, Marnik Bercx, Timo Reents, Kristjan Eimre, Nataliya Paulish, Nicolas Hörmann, Martin Uhrin, Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi

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Sebastiaan P HuberTheory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5845-8880
Michail MinotakisPSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland giovanni.pizzi@psi.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4314-8691
Marnik BercxTheory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland.
Timo ReentsPSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland giovanni.pizzi@psi.ch.
Kristjan EimreTheory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3444-3286
Nataliya PaulishPSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland giovanni.pizzi@psi.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0311-2169
Nicolas HörmannFritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 14195 Berlin Germany.
Martin UhrinUniversité Grenoble Alpes, MIAI Cluster IA, SIMaP 38000 Grenoble France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6902-1289
Nicola MarzariTheory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland.
Giovanni PizziTheory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3583-4377

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Density-functional theory (DFT) is a widely used method to compute properties of materials, which are often collected in databases and serve as valuable starting points for further studies. In this article, we present the Materials Cloud Three-Dimensional Structure Database (MC3D), an online database of computed three-dimensional (3D) inorganic crystal structures. Close to a million experimentally reported structures were imported from the COD, ICSD and MPDS databases; these were parsed and filtered to yield a collection of 72 589 unique and stoichiometric structures, of which 95% are, to date, classified as experimentally known. The geometries of structures with up to 64 atoms were then optimized using DFT with automated workflows and curated input protocols. The procedure was repeated for different functionals and computational protocols, generating three methodology-based MC3D subdatabases: PBE-v1, PBEsol-v1, and PBEsol-v2, with the latest containing 32 013 unique structures. All subdatabases of the MC3D are made available on the Materials Cloud portal, which provides a graphical interface to explore and download the data. The database includes the full provenance graph of all the calculations driven by the automated workflows, thus establishing full reproducibility of the results and more-than-FAIR procedures.

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PMCPMC12915480

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