Predicting Chemical Reaction Barriers with a Machine Learning Model

In the past few decades, tremendous advances have been made in the understanding of catalysis at solid surfaces. Despite this, most discoveries of materials for improved catalytic performance are made by a slow trial and error process in an experimental laboratory. Computational simulations have beg...

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Vydané v:Catalysis letters Ročník 149; číslo 9; s. 2347 - 2354
Hlavní autori: Singh, Aayush R., Rohr, Brian A., Gauthier, Joseph A., Nørskov, Jens K.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: New York Springer US 01.09.2019
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ISSN:1011-372X, 1572-879X
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Shrnutí:In the past few decades, tremendous advances have been made in the understanding of catalysis at solid surfaces. Despite this, most discoveries of materials for improved catalytic performance are made by a slow trial and error process in an experimental laboratory. Computational simulations have begun to provide a way to rationally design materials for optimizing catalytic performance, but due to the high computational expense of calculating transition state energies, simulations cannot adequately screen the phase space of materials. In this work, we attempt to mitigate this expense by using a machine learning approach to predict the most expensive and most important parameter in a catalyst’s affinity for a reaction: the reaction barrier. Previous methods which used the step reaction energy as the only parameter in a linear regression had a mean absolute error (MAE) on the order of 0.4 eV, too high to be used predictively. In our work, we achieve a MAE of about 0.22 eV, a marked improvement towards the goal of computational prediction of catalytic activity. Graphical Abstract
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
AC02-76SF00515
ISSN:1011-372X
1572-879X
DOI:10.1007/s10562-019-02705-x