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Title: Machine Learning the Voltage of Electrode Materials in Metal-Ion Batteries

Journal Article · · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
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  1. Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics and Science of Advanced Materials Program and Dept. of Computer Science
  2. Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI (United States). Dept. of Computer Science
  3. Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics and Science of Advanced Materials Program

Machine-learning (ML) techniques have rapidly found applications in many domains of materials chemistry and physics where large data sets are available. Aiming to accelerate the discovery of materials for battery applications, in this work, we develop a tool (http://se.cmich. edu/batteries) based on ML models to predict voltages of electrode materials for metal-ion batteries. To this end, we use deep neural network, support vector machine, and kernel ridge regression as ML algorithms in combination with data taken from the Materials Project database, as well as feature vectors from properties of chemical compounds and elemental properties of their constituents. We show that our ML models have predictive capabilities for different reference test sets and, as an example, we utilize them to generate a voltage profile diagram and compare it to density functional theory calculations. In addition, using our models, we propose nearly 5000 candidate electrode materials for Na- and K-ion batteries. We also make available a web accessible tool that, within a minute, can be used to estimate the voltage of any bulk electrode material for a number of metal ions. These results show that ML is a promising alternative for computationally demanding calculations as a first screening tool of novel materials for battery applications.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI (United States); Quantum Information Science (QIS)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0019432
OSTI ID:
1574907
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1777848
Journal Information:
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 11, Issue 20; ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 66 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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