DiffSyn: A Generative Diffusion Approach to Materials Synthesis Planning

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Main Authors: Pan, Elton, Kwon, Soonhyoung, Liu, Sulin, Xie, Mingrou, Hoffman, Alexander J., Duan, Yifei, Prein, Thorben, Sheriff, Killian, Roman-Leshkov, Yuriy, Moliner, Manuel, Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael, Olivetti, Elsa
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author Pan, Elton
Kwon, Soonhyoung
Liu, Sulin
Xie, Mingrou
Hoffman, Alexander J.
Duan, Yifei
Prein, Thorben
Sheriff, Killian
Roman-Leshkov, Yuriy
Moliner, Manuel
Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael
Olivetti, Elsa
author_facet Pan, Elton
Kwon, Soonhyoung
Liu, Sulin
Xie, Mingrou
Hoffman, Alexander J.
Duan, Yifei
Prein, Thorben
Sheriff, Killian
Roman-Leshkov, Yuriy
Moliner, Manuel
Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael
Olivetti, Elsa
contents The synthesis of crystalline materials, such as zeolites, remains a significant challenge due to a high-dimensional synthesis space, intricate structure-synthesis relationships and time-consuming experiments. Considering the one-to-many relationship between structure and synthesis, we propose DiffSyn, a generative diffusion model trained on over 23,000 synthesis recipes spanning 50 years of literature. DiffSyn generates probable synthesis routes conditioned on a desired zeolite structure and an organic template. DiffSyn achieves state-of-the-art performance by capturing the multi-modal nature of structure-synthesis relationships. We apply DiffSyn to differentiate among competing phases and generate optimal synthesis routes. As a proof of concept, we synthesize a UFI material using DiffSyn-generated synthesis routes. These routes, rationalized by density functional theory binding energies, resulted in the successful synthesis of a UFI material with a high Si/Al$_{\text{ICP}}$ of 19.0, which is expected to improve thermal stability and is higher than that of any previously recorded.
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spellingShingle DiffSyn: A Generative Diffusion Approach to Materials Synthesis Planning
Pan, Elton
Kwon, Soonhyoung
Liu, Sulin
Xie, Mingrou
Hoffman, Alexander J.
Duan, Yifei
Prein, Thorben
Sheriff, Killian
Roman-Leshkov, Yuriy
Moliner, Manuel
Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael
Olivetti, Elsa
Materials Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
The synthesis of crystalline materials, such as zeolites, remains a significant challenge due to a high-dimensional synthesis space, intricate structure-synthesis relationships and time-consuming experiments. Considering the one-to-many relationship between structure and synthesis, we propose DiffSyn, a generative diffusion model trained on over 23,000 synthesis recipes spanning 50 years of literature. DiffSyn generates probable synthesis routes conditioned on a desired zeolite structure and an organic template. DiffSyn achieves state-of-the-art performance by capturing the multi-modal nature of structure-synthesis relationships. We apply DiffSyn to differentiate among competing phases and generate optimal synthesis routes. As a proof of concept, we synthesize a UFI material using DiffSyn-generated synthesis routes. These routes, rationalized by density functional theory binding energies, resulted in the successful synthesis of a UFI material with a high Si/Al$_{\text{ICP}}$ of 19.0, which is expected to improve thermal stability and is higher than that of any previously recorded.
title DiffSyn: A Generative Diffusion Approach to Materials Synthesis Planning
topic Materials Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17094