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Accessing the synthesizability of crystal structures is pivotal for advancing the practical application of theoretical material structures designed by machine learning or high-throughput screening. However, a significant gap exists between the actual synthesizability and thermodynamic or kinetic stability, which is commonly used for screening theoretical structures for experiments. To address this, we develop the Crystal Synthesis Large Language Models (CSLLM) framework, which includes three LLMs for predicting the synthesizability, synthesis methods, and precursors. We create a comprehensive synthesizability dataset including 140,120 crystal structures and develop an efficient text representation method for crystal structures to fine-tune the LLMs. The Synthesizability LLM achieves a remarkable 98.6% accuracy, significantly outperforming traditional synthesizability screening based on thermodynamic and kinetic stability by 106.1% and 44.5%, respectively. The Methods LLM achieves a classification accuracy of 91.02%, and the Precursors LLM has an 80.2% success rate in predicting synthesis precursors. Furthermore, we develop a user-friendly graphical interface that enables automatic predictions of synthesizability and precursors from uploaded crystal structure files. Through these contributions, CSLLM bridges the gap between theoretical material design and experimental synthesis, paving the way for the rapid discovery of novel and synthesizable functional materials.

Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC)-content autonomously produced by AI systems without human intervention-has significantly boosted efficiency across various fields. However, the AIGC in material science faces challenges in the ability to efficiently discover innovative materials that surpass existing databases, alongside the invariances and stability considerations of crystal structures. To address these challenges, we develop T2MAT (Text-to-Material), a comprehensive framework processing from a user-input sentence to inverse design material structures with goal properties beyond the existing database via globally exploring chemical space, followed by an entirely automated workflow of first principal validation. Furthermore, we propose CGTNet (Crystal Graph Transformer NETwork), a novel graph neural network model that captures long-term interactions, to enhance the accuracy and data efficiency of property prediction and thereby improve the reliability of inverse design. Through these contributions, T2MAT minimizes the dependency on human expertise and significantly enhances the efficiency of designing novel, high-performance functional materials, thereby actualizing AIGC in the materials design domain.

Directly generating material structures with optimal properties is a long-standing goal in material design. One of the fundamental challenges lies in how to overcome the limitation of traditional generative models to efficiently explore the global chemical space rather than a small localized space. Herein, we develop a framework named MAGECS to address this dilemma, by integrating the bird swarm algorithm and supervised graph neural network to effectively navigate the generative model in the immense chemical space towards materials with target properties. As a demonstration, MAGECS is applied to design compelling alloy electrocatalysts for CO$_2$ reduction reaction (CO$_2$RR) and works extremely well. Specifically, the chemical space of CO$_2$RR is effectively explored, where over 250,000 promising structures with high activity have been generated and notably, the proportion of desired structures is 2.5-fold increased. Moreover, five predicted alloys, i.e., CuAl, AlPd, Sn$_2$Pd$_5$, Sn$_9$Pd$_7$, and CuAlSe$_2$ are successfully synthesized and characterized experimentally, two of which exhibit about 90% Faraday efficiency of CO$_2$RR, and CuAl achieved 76% efficiency for C$_2$ products. This pioneering application of inverse design in CO$_2$RR catalysis showcases the potential of MAGECS to dramatically accelerate the development of functional materials, paving the way for fully automated, artificial intelligence-driven material design.

Symbolic regression (SR) is an emerging method for building analytical formulas to find models that best fit data sets. Here, SR was used to guide the design of new oxide perovskite catalysts with improved oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activities. An unprecedentedly simple descriptor, {\mu}/t, where {\mu} and t are the octahedral and tolerance factors, respectively, was identified, which accelerated the discovery of a series of new oxide perovskite catalysts with improved OER activity. We successfully synthesized five new oxide perovskites and characterized their OER activities. Remarkably, four of them, Cs0.4La0.6Mn0.25Co0.75O3, Cs0.3La0.7NiO3, SrNi0.75Co0.25O3, and Sr0.25Ba0.75NiO3, outperform the current state-of-the-art oxide perovskite catalyst, Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3 (BSCF). Our results demonstrate the potential of SR for accelerating data-driven design and discovery of new materials with improved properties.