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Title: Demonstration of an AI-driven workflow for dynamic x-ray spectroscopy

Journal Article · · NPJ Computational Materials

X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for characterizing the chemical state and symmetry of individual elements within materials, but requires collecting data at many energy points which can be time-consuming. While adaptive sampling methods exist for efficiently collecting spectroscopic data, they often lack domain-specific knowledge about the structure of XANES spectra. Here we demonstrate a knowledge-injected Bayesian optimization approach for adaptive XANES data collection that incorporates understanding of spectral features like absorption edges and pre-edge peaks. We show this method accurately reconstructs the absorption edge of XANES spectra using only 15–20% of the measurement points typically needed for conventional sampling, while maintaining the ability to determine the x-ray energy of the sharp peak after the absorption edge with errors less than 0.03 eV, the absorption edge with errors less than 0.1 eV; and overall root-mean-square errors less than 0.005 compared to traditionally sampled spectra. Our experiments on battery materials and catalysts demonstrate the method’s effectiveness for both static and dynamic XANES measurements, improving data collection ef ciency and enabling better time resolution for tracking chemical changes. This approach advances the degree of automation in XANES experiments, reducing the common errors of under- or over-sampling points near the absorption edge and enabling dynamic experiments that require high temporal resolution or limited measurement time. X-ray absorption spectroscopy meas

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) - Office of Vehicle Technologies (VTO); USDOE Office of Science - Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
3374612
Journal Information:
NPJ Computational Materials, Journal Name: NPJ Computational Materials Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 11; ISSN 2096-5001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English