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Shao-Horn, Yang Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael Bradford, Gabriel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering 2022-08-29T16:08:07Z 2022-08-29T16:08:07Z 2022-05 2022-06-23T14:09:50.997Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144735 Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) have the potential to improve energy storage devices by enhancing safety and enabling higher energy densities. However, SPEs suffer from significantly lower ionic conductivity than liquid electrolytes, limiting their adoption in functional devices. To facilitate more rapid discovery of high ionic conductivity SPEs, we developed a chemistry-informed machine learning model that accurately predicts ionic conductivity of SPEs. To train the model, we compiled training data of SPE ionic conductivity from hundreds of experimental publications. Our chemistry-informed model incorporates Arrhenius behavior into a state-of-the-art message passing neural network and has significantly improved accuracy over models with no explicit chemistry encoded. This method of tailoring a model to a specific prediction task by incorporating known chemical physics would be applicable to other materials discovery tasks and would be especially helpful where limited training data are available. Using our fully trained model, ionic conductivity values were predicted for several thousand candidate SPE formulations, allowing us to identify promising candidate SPEs. We also generated predictions for several different anions in two commonly used polymers, allowing us to examine the role of the anion in ionic conductivity. S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright MIT http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ Accelerating Polymer Electrolyte Discovery with Machine Learning Thesis application/pdf Master Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="f2b7429e-254c-4619-9869-3c3612ab3b3b"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Title>Accelerating Polymer Electrolyte Discovery with Machine Learning</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2022-05</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Bradford, Gabriel</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/</License> <Abstract>Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) have the potential to improve energy storage devices by enhancing safety and enabling higher energy densities. However, SPEs suffer from significantly lower ionic conductivity than liquid electrolytes, limiting their adoption in functional devices. To facilitate more rapid discovery of high ionic conductivity SPEs, we developed a chemistry-informed machine learning model that accurately predicts ionic conductivity of SPEs. To train the model, we compiled training data of SPE ionic conductivity from hundreds of experimental publications. Our chemistry-informed model incorporates Arrhenius behavior into a state-of-the-art message passing neural network and has significantly improved accuracy over models with no explicit chemistry encoded. This method of tailoring a model to a specific prediction task by incorporating known chemical physics would be applicable to other materials discovery tasks and would be especially helpful where limited training data are available. Using our fully trained model, ionic conductivity values were predicted for several thousand candidate SPE formulations, allowing us to identify promising candidate SPEs. We also generated predictions for several different anions in two commonly used polymers, allowing us to examine the role of the anion in ionic conductivity.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>