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Robert Ahmed and Christna Ahler, “A Review on Background and Applications of Machine Learning in Materials Research”, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Materials Science, vol.1, pp. 077-087, 2023. doi: 10.53759/832X/JCIMS202301008.
