Thermodynamics-informed machine learning for predicting temperature-dependent chemical properties

03 June 2025, Version 1
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Abstract

Emerging energy and electronic systems rely on the thermodynamic properties of chemical and cooling fluids. These properties are a function of both chemical structure and temperature. For instance, the dynamic viscosity of a fluid can vary by orders of magnitude across the operating range of a cooling system. However, capturing this behavior remains a challenge for experimental and modelling approaches. Machine learning models, although powerful for fixed temperatures, fail to generalize across temperatures due to a lack of data and a lack of embedded physical constraints. Here, we introduce a thermodynamics-informed machine learning framework that incorporates established physical relationships, such as the Arrhenius equation, to capture both chemical diversity and temperature dependence. We show that decoupling chemistry from thermodynamic conditions enables accurate prediction of temperature-dependent dynamic viscosity, which we validated experimentally. Through a materials-discovery campaign for cooling applications, we show that neglecting temperature effects can cause over 90% errors in performance evaluation, leading to inaccurate materials ranking and suboptimal fluid selection. Finally, we extend the framework to other properties, such as vapor pressure and diffusion coefficient, highlighting a generalizable strategy for accelerating fluid property prediction and design for sustainable technologies.

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