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Citing​

When using versions < 2.0.0, please consider citing the article:

@article{matid,
   author = {Himanen, Lauri and Rinke, Patrick and Foster, Adam Stuart},
   title = {{Materials structure genealogy and high-throughput topological classification of surfaces and 2D materials}},
   journal = {npj Computational Materials},
   volume = {4},
   number = {52},
   year = {2018}
   publisher = {Springer US},
   doi = {10.1038/s41524-018-0107-6},
   url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-018-0107-6},
}

When using versions >= 2.0.0, please additionally cite:

@article{matidv2,
   author = {Denell, Thea and Himanen, Lauri and Scheidgen, Markus and Draxl, Claudia},
   title = {{Automated identification of bulk structures, two-dimensional materials, and interfaces using symmetry-based clustering}},
   journal = {npj Computational Materials},
   volume = {11},
   number = {25},
   year = {2025}
   publisher = {Springer US},
   doi = {10.1038/s41524-024-01498-x},
   url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-024-01498-x},
}

License​

The matid source code is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Funding​

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 676580 with The Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Laboratory, a European Center of Excellence and from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. This work was furthermore supported by the Academy of Finland through its Centres of Excellence Programme 2015-2017 under project number 284621, as well as its Key Project Funding scheme under project number 305632. Additionally this work has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the project FAIRmat (DFG project no. 460197019, https://www.fairmat-nfdi.eu/) within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI, https://www.nfdi.de/)

Contact​

If you encounter issues with the software please submit them directly as GitHub issues. For general discussion and possible improvements/additions use the GitHub discussion forum. This ensures that all issues/discussion are publicly available and archived.