June 2026 Changelog

June deepened PHIN's strengths as a platform for making decisions. Multi-objective optimization now lets users push an experiment toward several competing targets at once and read the trade-offs between them directly, so you can choose the design that best balances your priorities. Improved built-in templates for surface energy, vacancy formation energy, and elastic constants make more of the properties you care about easier to use with less custom setup required.

Together these updates point to where PHIN is heading: fewer one-off runs and more guided, comparative workflows that get you to a confident answer faster. Bulk experiment management and clearer error reporting keep large campaigns manageable as your usage grows, and behind the scenes we've been laying the groundwork for an AI assistant that turns plain-language requests into ready-to-run experiments. It's a month of steady momentum toward a materials platform that doesn't just compute results, but helps you decide what to do with them.

Major features

• Multi-objective optimization: Steer an experiment toward several competing goals at once and see the trade-off frontier between them, so you can pick the design that best balances your priorities.
• Improved property calculations: Run surface energy, vacancy formation energy, and elastic-constants studies directly from built-in templates.

Minor features

• Bulk experiment management: Load and delete experiments in batches, making large campaigns far faster to organize.
• All validation errors at a glance: The experiment canvas now surfaces every task validation error at once instead of one at a time.
• Materials Project structures: Import crystal structures more reliably through the updated Materials Project connection.
• Structured sweep outputs: Parameter sweeps can now emit structured, labeled data, making downstream analysis and comparison cleaner.

Fixes & polish

• Smoother configuration throughout: themed confirmation dialogs, selection controls that reveal on hover, more reliable switching between simulation engines, and steadier structure import and deployment.