Active learning and neural network potentials accelerate molecular screening of ether-based solvate ionic liquids
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Wang, Wujie; Yang, Tzuhsiung; Harris, William H.; Gómez-Bombarelli, Rafael
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Solvate ionic liquids (SIL) have promising applications as electrolyte materials. Despite the broad design space of oligoether ligands, most reported SILs are based on simple tri- and tetraglyme. Here, we describe a computational search for complex ethers that can better stabilize SILs. Through active learning, a neural network interatomic potential is trained from density functional theory data. The learned potential fulfills two key requirements: transferability across composition space, and high speed and accuracy to find low-energy ligand-ion poses across configurational space. Candidate ether ligands for Li+, Mg2+ and Na+ SILs with higher binding affinity and electrochemical stability than the reference compounds are identified. Lastly, their properties are related to the geometry of the coordination sphere.
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2020-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and EngineeringJournal
Chemical Communications
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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Wang, Wujie et al. "Active learning and neural network potentials accelerate molecular screening of ether-based solvate ionic liquids." Forthcoming in Chemical Communications 2020 (June 2020) © 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry
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1359-7345
1364-548X