About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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AI/ML/Data Informatics for Materials Discovery: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Modeling
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Presentation Title |
Data Informatics for Featurization and Discovery of Metal to Insulator Transition Materials |
Author(s) |
Gulcehre Duygu Yuksel, Irmak Sargin |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Gulcehre Duygu Yuksel |
Abstract Scope |
Metal–insulator transition (MIT) materials can switch between conducting and insulating states offering high potential for future electronics and correlated systems. However, discovering new MIT compounds with desired properties remains difficult due to the vast space of possible compositions. This study utilizes machine learning approaches based on compositional data collected from literature. Supervised classification and unsupervised principal component analysis (PCA) were used to explore patterns among known metals, insulators, and MIT compounds. Physically meaningful features such as ionic radius deviation, global instability index, hybridization energy, and fractional ionicity defined the feature space. In both approaches, several previously unrecognized non-MIT materials, such as Magnéli phases and RNiO₃ series members, clustered near the MIT group, suggesting potential transition behavior. Additionally, new candidate compositions were proposed based on their similarity to known MITs. This study highlights the potential of interpretable, feature-driven ML tools in transition discovery, correlating experimental studies with computational MIT prediction. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
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Keywords |
Machine Learning, Electronic Materials, Computational Materials Science & Engineering |