機械学習モデルにより、脱炭素技術のための触媒の評価を数カ月からミリ秒に高速化(Machine learning model speeds up assessing catalysts for decarbonization technology from months to milliseconds)

2023-02-28 アルゴンヌ国立研究所(ANL)

＜関連情報＞

• https://www.anl.gov/article/machine-learning-model-speeds-up-assessing-catalysts-for-decarbonization-technology-from-months-to
• https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2023/dd/d2dd00088a

メッセージパッシングニューラルネットワークによる触媒スクリーニングに重要な記述子の評価の高速化 Accelerating the evaluation of crucial descriptors for catalyst screening via message passing neural network

Hieu A. Doan, Chenyang Li, Logan Ward, Mingxia Zhou, Larry A. Curtiss and Rajeev S. Assary
Royal Society of Chemistry  Published:9th November 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/D2DD00088A

Abstract

A priori catalyst design guidelines from first principles simulations and reliable data-driven models are essential for cost efficient catalyst discovery. Nonetheless, acquiring all properties that control catalytic activity and stability is computationally challenging due to the complex interactions among reactants, intermediates, and products at the active sites. Therefore, predictions of only the most relevant catalytic properties, or catalyst descriptors, are often used to guide new catalyst design. In the context of upgrading biomass materials via deoxygenation reaction to value-added chemicals, the molybdenum carbides (Mo₂C) have been considered among the most active and economically viable catalysts. Unfortunately, one of the bottlenecks related to longer term stability of Mo₂C catalysts is the susceptibility to surface oxidation, a common problem in heterogeneous catalysis, which requires the use of excess hydrogen for active site regeneration. By using surface dopants to tune the oxygen affinity (catalyst descriptor) of Mo₂C surfaces, it is possible to design new doped Mo₂C catalysts with desired reactivity and stability. Here, we first employed periodic density functional theory to perform 20000 high-throughput VASP simulations of oxygen binding energies (BE_O) on various pristine and doped Mo₂C surfaces. We computed and developed a binding energy database of 20000 oxygen adsorption structures consisting of 7 low Miller-index surfaces, 23 d-block elements as single-atom dopants, all possible surface terminations, dopant locations, and adsorption sites. Utilizing this dataset, we developed a message passing neural network (MPNN) machine learning model for extremely fast BE_O prediction using only unoptimized local adsorption geometries as inputs. The best model yields a mean absolute error of 0.176 eV for BE_O with respect to computed values from DFT. Our results highlight the use of MPNN as an accurate and broadly applicable machine learning approach to accelerate descriptor-based catalyst discovery.