Active Learning and Neural Network Potentials Accelerate Molecular Screening of Ether-based Solvate Ionic Liquids

18 May 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

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+, Mg+2 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.

Keywords

machine Learning Methods Enable Predictive Modeling
graph neural networks
Solvate ionic liquid
electrolyte

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