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arXiv · 2605.03205

From Knowledge to Action: Outcomes of the 2025 Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry

Aritra Roy·Kevin Shen·Andrew MacBride·Awwal Oladipupo·Mudassra Taskeen·Wojtek Treyde·Ruaa A. E. A. Abakar·Ahmad D. Abbas·Elsayed Abdelfatah·Abbas A. Abdullahi·Seham S. Abyah·Chahd Rahyl Adjmi·Fariha Agbere·Savyasanchi Aggarwal·Muhammad Ahmed·Tasnim Ahmed·Motasem Ajlouni·Mattias Akke·Hussein AlAdwan·Anwaar S. Alazani·Zahra A. Alharbi·Wajd A. Aljulyhi·Mohammed A. AlKubaish·Fatima A. Almahri·Sayed A. Almohri·David Obeh Alobo·Mohammed Alouni·Azizah S. Alqahtani·Omar Alsaigh·Husain Althagafi·Md. Aqib Aman·Lena Ara·Arifin·Ignacio Arretche·Abdulaziz Ashy·Syeda A. Asim·Amro Aswad·Adeel Atta·Sören Auer·Abdullah al Azmi·Toheeb Balogun·Suvo Banik·Viktoriia Baibakova·Shakira A. Baksh·Neus G. Bastús·Christina J. Bayard·Adib Bazgir·Louis Beal·Lejla Biberić·Wahid Billah·Ankita Biswas·Joshua Bocarsly·Montassar T. Bouzidi·Esma B. Boydas·Youssef Briki·Cailin Buchanan·Mauricio Cafiero·Damien Caliste·Yi Cao·Rafael E. Castañeda·Sruthy K. Chandy·Benjamin Charmes·Shayantan Chaudhuri·Yiming Chen·Alexander Chen·Jieneng Chen·Min-Hsueh Chiu·Defne Circi·Cinthya H. Contreras·Yoann Cure·Nathan Daelman·Roshini Dantuluri·Thomas Davy·William Dawson·Leonid Didukh·Rui Ding·Aminu R. Doguwa·Claudia Draxl·Sathya Edamadaka·Oulaya Elargab·Christina Ertural·Matthew L. Evans·Edvin Fako·Hossam Farag·Nur A. Fathurrahman·Merve Fedai·Rodrigo P. Ferreira·Giuseppe Fisicaro·Thomas Frank·Sasi K. Gaddipati·Abhijeet Gangan·Jennifer Garland·James Garrick·Luigi Genovese·Maryam Ghadrdran·Sandip Giri·Maxime Goulet·Jeremy Goumaz·Sara U. Gracia·Jacob Graham

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing how researchers in materials science and chemistry discover, organize, and act on scientific knowledge. This paper analyzes a broad set of community-developed LLM applications in an effort to identify emerging patterns in how these systems can be used across the scientific research lifecycle. We organize the projects into two complementary categories: Knowledge Infrastructure, systems that structure, retrieve, synthesize, and validate scientific information; and Action Systems, systems that execute, coordinate, or automate scientific work across computational and experimental environments. The submissions reveal a shift from single-purpose LLM tools toward integrated, multi-agent workflows that combine retrieval, reasoning, tool use, and domain-specific validation. Prominent themes include retrieval-augmented generation as grounding infrastructure, persistent structured knowledge representations, multimodal and multilingual scientific inputs, and early progress toward laboratory-integrated closed-loop systems. Together, these results suggest that LLMs are evolving from general-purpose assistants into composable infrastructure for scientific reasoning and action. This work provides a community snapshot of that transition and a practical taxonomy for understanding emerging LLM-enabled workflows in materials science and chemistry.

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Aritra Roy, Kevin Shen, Andrew MacBride, Awwal Oladipupo, Mudassra Taskeen, Wojtek Treyde, Ruaa A. E. A. Abakar, Ahmad D. Abbas, Elsayed Abdelfatah, Abbas A. Abdullahi, Seham S. Abyah, Chahd Rahyl Adjmi, Fariha Agbere, Savyasanchi Aggarwal, Muhammad Ahmed, Tasnim Ahmed, Motasem Ajlouni, Mattias Akke, Hussein AlAdwan, Anwaar S. Alazani, Zahra A. Alharbi, Wajd A. Aljulyhi, Mohammed A. AlKubaish, Fatima A. Almahri, Sayed A. Almohri, David Obeh Alobo, Mohammed Alouni, Azizah S. Alqahtani, Omar Alsaigh, Husain Althagafi, Md. Aqib Aman, Lena Ara, Arifin, Ignacio Arretche, Abdulaziz Ashy, Syeda A. Asim, Amro Aswad, Adeel Atta, Sören Auer, Abdullah al Azmi, Toheeb Balogun, Suvo Banik, Viktoriia Baibakova, Shakira A. Baksh, Neus G. Bastús, Christina J. Bayard, Adib Bazgir, Louis Beal, Lejla Biberić, Wahid Billah, Ankita Biswas, Joshua Bocarsly, Montassar T. Bouzidi, Esma B. Boydas, Youssef Briki, Cailin Buchanan, Mauricio Cafiero, Damien Caliste, Yi Cao, Rafael E. Castañeda, Sruthy K. Chandy, Benjamin Charmes, Shayantan Chaudhuri, Yiming Chen, Alexander Chen, Jieneng Chen, Min-Hsueh Chiu, Defne Circi, Cinthya H. Contreras, Yoann Cure, Nathan Daelman, Roshini Dantuluri, Thomas Davy, William Dawson, Leonid Didukh, Rui Ding, Aminu R. Doguwa, Claudia Draxl, Sathya Edamadaka, Oulaya Elargab, Christina Ertural, Matthew L. Evans, Edvin Fako, Hossam Farag, Nur A. Fathurrahman, Merve Fedai, Rodrigo P. Ferreira, Giuseppe Fisicaro, Thomas Frank, Sasi K. Gaddipati, Abhijeet Gangan, Jennifer Garland, James Garrick, Luigi Genovese, Maryam Ghadrdran, Sandip Giri, Maxime Goulet, Jeremy Goumaz, Sara U. Gracia, Jacob Graham. 2026-05-04. From Knowledge to Action: Outcomes of the 2025 Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03205

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