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Data-driven methodologies for designing new materials are developing apace, yet advances for organic crystals have been infrequent. For organic crystals, the need to predict solid-state electronic properties from molecular structure alone is an exceedingly difficult task for typical, regression-based design strategies. In this paper, we present a new strategy for designing organic crystals which circumvents the need to regress solid-state physical properties directly. At the core of this strategy is an electronic structure chart, a two-dimensional projection of an organic crystal database in which each material is positioned according to its solid-state electronic properties. We illustrate this strategy by identifying a new molecule which is predicted to show a targeted band gap and better-than-average band curvatures in the crystalline state. This strategy is the first data-driven method which can design new molecules on the basis of genuine solid-state electronic properties, and has potential to accelerate breakthroughs in the field of organic electronics and beyond.
Comment: 20 pages (main paper) + 6 pages (supporting information). 4 figures (main paper). Download links to the supporting files "data_cod.txt" and "SI3.xlsx" are provided in the supporting information. Manuscript in preparation for submission to a journal