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Shunda Chen

@shunda-chen.bsky.social
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A scientist seeking hidden order in complexity, from atoms to materials. Bridging physics, AI, simulations, and experiments to accelerate discovery. Fiat lux!

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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excited to share a new paper, "Anisotropic Short-Range Order Modulates Ferroelectric Switching in Wurtzite ScAlN Alloys," available on arXiv. Our findings lay a foundation for SRO engineering in ferroelectric semiconductors for nonvolatile memory & neuromorphic computing. arxiv.org/html/2606.18...
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Anisotropic Short-Range Order Modulates Ferroelectric Switching in Wurtzite ScAlN Alloys
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEP89 represents a key milestone toward the long-standing goal of a unified computational framework that delivers near-quantum-level accuracy and near-empirical-potential efficiency across diverse material systems.🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #AI #MachineLearning #FoundationModel #MD #MLIP #NEP
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NEP89: universal neuroevolution potential for inorganic and organic materials across 89 elements - Nature Computational Science
The researchers developed NEP89, a foundation model for large-scale molecular dynamics across 89 elements with near-quantum-level accuracy and high efficiency. It can be rapidly adapted to address com...
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Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com · 08/07/2026
📢A study from @shunda-chen.bsky.social and colleagues proposes NEP89, a foundation model for large-scale molecular dynamics across 89 elements with near-quantum accuracy. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #chemsky 🔓 rdcu.be/fsPw0
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NEP89: universal neuroevolution potential for inorganic and organic materials across 89 elements - Nature Computational Science
The researchers developed NEP89, a foundation model for large-scale molecular dynamics across 89 elements with near-quantum-level accuracy and high efficiency. It can be rapidly adapted to address com...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEP89, a foundation model for large-scale molecular dynamics across 89 elements, is now published in @natcomputsci.nature.com. It can be rapidly adapted to tackle complex challenges in both inorganic and organic materials. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #AI #MachineLearning #MaterialsScience
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NEP89: universal neuroevolution potential for inorganic and organic materials across 89 elements - Nature Computational Science
The researchers developed NEP89, a foundation model for large-scale molecular dynamics across 89 elements with near-quantum-level accuracy and high efficiency. It can be rapidly adapted to address com...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Here is the link to the paper titled "Identification of short-range ordering motifs in semiconductors": www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Identification of short-range ordering motifs in semiconductors
Chemical short-range ordering is expected to be a key factor for tuning the electronic structure of semiconductors. However, experimental evidence of short-range ordering is still lacking due to the c...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A new paper published in Science: Short-range order in semiconductors has been directly confirmed, offering a new way to engineer electronic properties for advanced microelectronics & quantum devices. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @gwu1821.bsky.social #EFRC
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Identification of short-range ordering motifs in semiconductors
Chemical short-range ordering is expected to be a key factor for tuning the electronic structure of semiconductors. However, experimental evidence of short-range ordering is still lacking due to the c...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Water is the most anomalous liquid and extremely hard to model. We made a breakthrough with a machine-learning framework (NEP-MB-pol) that captures water’s quantum nature and simultaneously predicts its structural, thermodynamic, and transport properties. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NEP-MB-pol: a unified machine-learned framework for fast and accurate prediction of water’s thermodynamic and transport properties - npj Computational Materials
npj Computational Materials - NEP-MB-pol: a unified machine-learned framework for fast and accurate prediction of water’s thermodynamic and transport properties
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Davide Donadio @davidedonadio.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Thank you @physicsworld.bsky.social for covering our work on homogeneous nucleation of graphite and diamond from molten carbon. Did I show you this? physicsworld.com/a/graphite-h... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Graphite 'hijacks' the journey from molten carbon to diamond – Physics World
Machine-learning-based molecular simulations reveal unexpected crystallization pathway
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our recent study used machine-learning MD simulations to uncover carbon’s surprising crystallization behavior, shedding light on puzzling experimental results and the hidden complexity of how carbon forms graphite or diamond. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NEP #GPUMD #AI #MachineLearning #Diamond
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Metastability and Ostwald step rule in the crystallisation of diamond and graphite from molten carbon - Nature Communications
Molecular simulations reveal how diamond and graphite crystallize from molten carbon. Following Ostwald’s step rule, the liquid’s low density drives metastable graphite formation even within the diamo...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Our paper "Enabling Type I Lattice-Matched Heterostructures in SiGeSn Alloys Through Engineering Composition and Short-Range Order: A First-Principles Perspective" is selected for the front cover of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics! doi.org/10.1109/JSTQ...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Excited to share our latest work on Semiconductor-Compatible Topological Digital Alloys, just published in Materials Today! Get 50 days of free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktXH4tRoW...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our GPU-accelerated NEP-PIMD approach offers an accessible, accurate, and scalable way to capture nuclear quantum effects in diverse materials. 🚀 Now published in J. Chem. Phys. 162, 064109 (2025) doi.org/10.1063/5.02... #NEP #GPUMD #PIMD #RPMD #TRPMD #MachineLearning #AI
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Highly efficient path-integral molecular dynamics simulations with GPUMD using neuroevolution potentials: Case studies on thermal properties of materials
Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are crucial for accurately capturing nuclear quantum effects in materials. However, their computational inte
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Million-atom heat transport simulations of polycrystalline graphene approaching first-principles accuracy on desktop gaming GPUs! 💻 Enabled by Neuroevolution Potential (NEP) in GPUMD. Published in J. Appl. Phys. 137, 014305 (2025) doi.org/10.1063/5.02... #MachineLearning #NEP #GPUMD #graphene #AI
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Million-atom heat transport simulations of polycrystalline graphene approaching first-principles accuracy enabled by neuroevolution potential on desktop GPUs
First-principles molecular dynamics simulations of heat transport in systems with large-scale structural features are challenging due to their high computationa
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Davide Donadio @davidedonadio.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Dylan's first research paper outlines a workflow to calculate vibrational properties, thermal conductivity, and elastic moduli at finite temperature with #MachineLearning potentials. #open-access in J.Appl.Phys. @aip.bsky.social Collaboration with @flokno.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
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Elastic moduli and thermal conductivity of quantum materials at finite temperature
We describe a theoretical and computational approach to calculate the vibrational, elastic, and thermal properties of materials from the low-temperature quantum
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Materials Research Society @materials-mrs.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
🌟 Exciting news! We're now on Bluesky! Follow us and join the conversation with #F24MRS. Stay connected with the latest updates and insights from the materials community!
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Davide Donadio @davidedonadio.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello, it's me. I'm in California dreaming about who I used to be. When I was younger and free.
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COSMO Lab @labcosmo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🚨 Hello #machinelearning #compchem friends. After many months of careful coding, checking, optimization and renaming all classes, we are happy to announce torch-pme - a fast and flexible library to incorporate long-range physics into atomistic ML models.
logo of torch-pme: a water molecule represented as density on a grid
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Geoff Hutchison @geoffhutchison.net · 15/11/2024
Welcome to all the newcomers to #ChemSky 🧪 I don't post much, but you'll get a dose of #compchem and materials discovery, a bit of #machinelearning (with skepticism) and some sprinkling of #Pittsburgh (including @pitt.bsky.social and @pittchem.bsky.social) Enjoy some recent @avogadro.cc renders
Image of an endofullerene - a translucent sodium atom encased in a C60 buckminsterfullerene molecule, rendered by AvogadroImage of a zirconium metal complex with a translucent green sphere representing the Zr metal ion interacting, labeled by Zr characters, bonded to two cyclopentadienyl rings, a methyl group and a hydrogen
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Randall Snurr @randallsnurr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As my first post on @bsky.app, I'm happy to announce the publication of a paper describing the new (very fast!) GPU version of our RASPA simulation code, gRASPA. Congratulations to Zhao Li and the team!
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COSMO Lab @labcosmo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hello! I'm posting this both here and on the X-rated site, let's see where it gets more re-posts 😇. We are looking for a research software engineer to help us develop (even) better code for #compchem #atomicscale #machinelearning. Check out the specs and apply! www.epfl.ch/labs/cosmo/i...
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Shunda Chen @shunda-chen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🎉 Exciting news! Our unified neuroevolution potential (UNEP-v1) is now published in Nature Communications! Read it here 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #MachineLearning #MaterialsScience #MD #GPU
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General-purpose machine-learned potential for 16 elemental metals and their alloys - Nature Communications
Machine-learned potentials are accurate but often lack broad applicability. Here, authors develop a general-purpose neuroevolution potential for 16 metals and their alloys, achieving efficient and acc...
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