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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 6063-6081Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9ra07755c
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- U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program [KC23MP]
- Office of Science of the U. S. Department of Energy [DEAC02-05CH11231]
- DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Structure characterization and classification is frequently based on local environment information of all or selected atomic sites in the crystal structure. Therefore, reliable and robust procedures to find coordinated neighbors and to evaluate the resulting coordination pattern (e.g., tetrahedral, square planar) are critically important for both traditional and machine learning approaches that aim to exploit site or structure information for predicting materials properties. Here, we introduce new local structure order parameters (LoStOPs) that are specifically designed to rapidly detect highly symmetric local coordination environments (e.g., Platonic solids such as a tetrahedron or an octahedron) as well as less symmetric ones (e.g., Johnson solids such as a square pyramid). Furthermore, we introduce a Monte Carlo optimization approach to ensure that the different LoStOPs are comparable with each other. We then apply the new local environment descriptors to define site and structure fingerprints and to measure similarity between 61 known coordination environments and 40 commonly studied crystal structures, respectively. After extensive testing and optimization, we determine the most accurate structure similarity assessment procedure to compute all 2.45 billion structure similarities between each pair of the approximate to 70 000 materials that are currently present in the Materials Project database.
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