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Nonequilibrium chemical short-range order in metallic alloys
Mahmudul Islam*, Killian Sheriff*, Yifan Cao*, and Rodrigo Freitas

Capturing short-range order in high-entropy alloys with machine learning potentials
Yifan Cao, Killian Sheriff, and Rodrigo Freitas

2024

Roadmap on machine learning-based interatomic potentials
Section: “Capturing chemical complexity in high-entropy materials”
Killian Sheriff* , Yifan Cao*, and Rodrigo Freitas
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Simultaneous discovery of reaction coordinates and committor functions using equivariant graph neural networks
Killian Sheriff, Rodrigo Freitas, Amalie Trewartha, Steven Torrisi
NeurIPS 2024 – AI for Accelerated Materials Discovery (AI4Mat) Workshop

Na vs Li metal anodes for batteries: unraveling thermodynamic and electronic origins of voids and developing descriptors for artificial surface coatings
Victor Venturi, Rodrigo Freitas, Iwnetim Abate
Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Chemical-motif characterization of short-range order with E(3)-equivariant graph neural networks
Killian Sheriff, Yifan Cao, and Rodrigo Freitas
npj Computational Materials
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Comprehensive analysis of ordering in CoCrNi and CrNi₂ alloys
Vinícius Bacurau, Pedro A. Moreira, Gustavo Bertoli, Angelo F. Andreoli, Eric Mazzer, Flavio F. de Assis, Piter Gargarella, Santiago Figueroa, Michael Widom, Michael Kaufman, Andrea Fantin, Yifan Cao, Rodrigo Freitas, Daniel Miracle, Francisco Gil Coury
Nature Communications

Quantifying chemical short-range order in metallic alloys
Killian Sheriff*, Yifan Cao*, Tess Smidt, Rodrigo Freitas
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2022

Machine-learning potentials for crystal defects
Rodrigo Freitas and Yifan Cao
MRS Communications

Data-centric framework for crystal structure identification in atomistic simulations using machine learning
Heejung W. Chung*, Rodrigo Freitas*, Gowoon Cheon, and Evan J. Reed
Physical Review Materials
Editors’ Suggestion

Dual phase patterning during a congruent grain boundary phase transition in elemental copper
Lena Langenohl*, Tobias Brink*, Rodrigo Freitas, Timofey Frolov, Gerhard Dehm, and Christian H. Liebscher
Nature Communications

Temperature-extrapolatable kinetic model for extension of molecular dynamics of complex chemistry to microsecond timescales: application to hydrocarbon pyrolysis
Vincent Dufour-Decieux, Brandi Ransom, Rodrigo Freitas, Jose Blanchet, and Evan J. Reed
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

2021

Atomic-level features for kinetic monte carlo models of complex chemistry from molecular dynamics simulations
V. Dufour-Décieux, R. Freitas, and E. J. Reed
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Spectrum of exfoliable 1D van der Waals molecular wires and their electronic properties
Y. Zhu, D. A. Rehn, E. R. Antoniuk, G. Cheon, R. Freitas, A. Krishnapriyan, and E. J. Reed
ACS Nano

2020

Atomistic insights into metal hardening
L. A. Zepeda-Ruiz, A. Stukowski, T. Oppelstrup, N. Bertin, N. R. Barton, R. Freitas, and V. V. Bulatov.
Nature Materials

Uncovering the effects of interface-induced ordering of liquid on crystal growth using machine learning
R. Freitas and E. J. Reed
Nature Communications

2019

Transferable kinetic monte carlo models with thousands of reactions learned from molecular dynamics simulations
E. Chen, Q. Yang, V. D’ecieux, C. A. Sing-Long, R. Freitas, and E. J. Reed
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

2018

Free energy of grain boundary phases: Atomistic calculations for Σ5 (310)[001] grain boundary in Cu
R. Freitas, R. E. Rudd, M. Asta, T. Frolov
Physical Review Materials

Quantum effects on dislocation motion from ring-polymer molecular dynamics”
R. Freitas, M. Asta, and V. V. Bulatov
npj Computational Materials

Anomalous diffusion of water molecules at grain boundaries in ice Ih
P. A. F. P. Moreira, R. G. de A. Veiga, I. de A. Ribeiro, R. Freitas, J. Helfferich, M. de Koning
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

2017

Capillary fluctuations of surface steps: An atomistic simulation study for the model Cu (111) system
R. Freitas, T. Frolov, and M. Asta
Physical Review E

Free energy of steps at faceted (111) solid-liquid interfaces in the Si-Al system calculated using capillary fluctuation method
P. Saidi, R. Freitas, T. Frolov, M. Asta, and J. J. Hoyt
Computational Materials Science

Step free energies at faceted solid surfaces: Theory and atomistic calculations for steps on the Cu (111) surface
R. Freitas, T. Frolov, and M. Asta
Physical Review B

2016

The Uhlenbeck-Ford model: Exact virial coefficients and application as a reference system in fluid-phase free-energy calculations
R. P. Leite, R. Freitas, R. Azevedo, and M. de Koning
The Journal of Chemical Physics

Nonequilibrium free-energy calculation of solids using LAMMPS
R. Freitas, M. Asta, and M. de Koning
Computational Materials Science
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