The signac framework has been cited over 50 times and has been used in a range of research fields with various types of computational workflows.
Here, we showcase a few examples of scientific papers that have used signac.
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[CADG21]
Rose K. Cersonsky, James Antonaglia, Bradley D. Dice, and Sharon C. Glotzer. The diversity of three-dimensional photonic crystals. Nature Communications, 12(1):2543, May 2021. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22809-6.
Identifies photonic band gaps over a space of 151,593 crystal structures. Simulations performed using MIT Photonic Bands (MPB).
[MVG+21]
Félix Musil, Max Veit, Alexander Goscinski, Guillaume Fraux, Michael J. Willatt, Markus Stricker, Till Junge, and Michele Ceriotti. Efficient implementation of atom-density representations. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(11):114109, March 2021. doi:10.1063/5.0044689.
Benchmarking atom-density representations for use in machine learning. Data generated using librascal.
[HCVM20]
Eric S. Harper, Eleanor J. Coyle, Jonathan P. Vernon, and Matthew S. Mills. Inverse design of broadband highly reflective metasurfaces using neural networks. Physical Review B, 101(19):195104, May 2020. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.195104.
Electromagnetic simulations of silicon cylinders on a SiO2 substrate are performed using RCWA and managed via signac. The resulting data is used in a machine learning model using TensorFlow to predict optical properties.
[PHMTN19]
Michael P. Howard, Thomas M. Truskett, and Arash Nikoubashman. Cross-stream migration of a Brownian droplet in a polymer solution under Poiseuille flow. Soft Matter, 15(15):3168–3178, March 2019. doi:10.1039/c8sm02552e.
Simulating fluid flow in polymer solutions as a function of chain length \(M\), polymer concentration \(\phi_p\), body force \(f_x\), and droplet viscosity \(\mu_d\). Simulations performed using HOOMD-blue.
[TMS+19]
Matthew W. Thompson, Ray Matsumoto, Robert L. Sacci, Nicolette C. Sanders, and Peter T. Cummings. Scalable Screening of Soft Matter: A Case Study of Mixtures of Ionic Liquids and Organic Solvents. J. Phys. Chem. B, 123(6):1340–1347, January 2019. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b11527.
Molecular dynamics simulations of room-temperature ionic liquids spanning 396 state points: 18 compositions by mass fraction and 22 unique solvents from five chemical families (nitriles, alcohols, halocarbons, carbonyls, and glymes). Simulations performed using GROMACS.
[AADG18]
Carl S. Adorf, James Antonaglia, Julia Dshemuchadse, and Sharon C. Glotzer. Inverse design of simple pair potentials for the self-assembly of complex structures. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 149(20):204102–204102, November 2018. doi:10.1063/1.5063802.
Uses relative entropy minimization in Fourier space to identify isotropic particle interaction potentials that result in self-assembly of various crystal structures. Simulations performed using HOOMD-blue.
[TAH+18]
Stephen Thomas, Monet Alberts, Michael M Henry, Carla E Estridge, and Eric Jankowski. Routine million-particle simulations of epoxy curing with dissipative particle dynamics. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, 17(03):1840005, May 2018. doi:10.1142/s0219633618400059.
4,480 molecular dynamics simulations of epoxy curing, each containing millions of particles. Simulations performed using HOOMD-blue.
[GG18]
Marco Govoni and Giulia Galli. GW100: comparison of methods and accuracy of results obtained with the WEST code. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 14(4):1895–1909, February 2018. doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00952.
Validation study using five different codes to compute the vertical ionization potential and electron affinities of 100 molecules with the \(G_0W_0\) approximation. Simulations performed using BerkeleyGW, FHI-aims, TURBOMOLE, VASP, and WEST.