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ArticleCommunications chemistry2026

ChemGraph as an agentic framework for computational chemistry workflows.

Thang D Pham, Aditya Tanikanti, Murat Keçeli

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Thang D PhamComputational Science (CPS) Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. tpham@anl.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-4619
Aditya TanikantiArgonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5240-5064
Murat KeçeliComputational Science (CPS) Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. keceli@anl.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8588-9272

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atomistic simulations are essential in chemistry and materials science but remain challenging to run due to the expert knowledge required for the setup, execution, and validation stages of these calculations. We present ChemGraph, an agentic framework powered by artificial intelligence and state-of-the-art simulation tools to streamline and automate computational chemistry and materials science workflows. ChemGraph leverages graph neural network-based foundation models for accurate yet computationally efficient calculations and large language models (LLMs) for natural language understanding, task planning, and scientific reasoning to provide an intuitive and interactive interface. We evaluate ChemGraph across 13 benchmark tasks and demonstrate that smaller LLMs (GPT-4o-mini, Claude-3.5-haiku, Qwen-2.5-14B) perform well on simple workflows, while more complex tasks benefit from using larger models. Importantly, we show that decomposing complex tasks into smaller subtasks through a multi-agent framework enables GPT-4o to reach perfect accuracy and smaller LLMs to match or exceed single-agent GPT-4o's performance in these benchmarks.

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PMID41501521
PMCPMC12824235

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