MOF-ChemUnity: Unifying metal-organic framework data using large language models
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming materials research in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), where models trained on structured computational data routinely predict new materials and optimize their properties. This raises a central question: What if we could leverage the full breadth of MOF knowledge, not just structured datasets, but also the scientific literature? For human researchers, the literature remains the primary source of knowledge, yet much of its content, including experimental data and expert insight, remains underutilized by AI systems. We introduce MOF-ChemUnity, a structured, extensible, and scalable knowledge graph that unifies MOF chemical data by linking literature-derived insights to crystal structures and computational datasets. By disambiguating MOF names in the literature and connecting them to crystal structures in the Cambridge Structural Database, MOF-ChemUnity unifies experimental and computational sources and enables cross-document knowledge extraction and linking. We showcase how this enables multi-property machine learning across simulated and experimental data, compilation of complete synthesis records for individual compounds by aggregating information across multiple publications, and expert-guided materials recommendations via structure-based embeddings. When used as a knowledge source to augment large language models (LLMs), MOF-ChemUnity enables a literature-informed AI assistant that operates over the full scope of MOF knowledge. Expert evaluations show improved accuracy, interpretability, and trustworthiness across tasks such as retrieval, inference of structure-property relationships, and materials recommendation, outperforming standard LLMs. This work lays the foundation for literature-informed materials discovery, enabling both human scientists and AI systems to reason over the full landscape of MOF knowledge in a new way.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".