Machine Learning Using Combined Structural and Chemical Descriptors for Prediction of Methane Adsorption Performance of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
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Using molecular simulation for adsorbent screening is computationally expensive and thus prohibitive to materials discovery. Machine learning (ML) algorithms trained on fundamental material properties can potentially provide quick and accurate methods for screening purposes. Prior efforts have focused on structural descriptors for use with ML. In this work, the use of chemical descriptors, in addition to structural descriptors, was introduced for adsorption analysis. Evaluation of structural and chemical descriptors coupled with various ML algorithms, including decision tree, Poisson regression, support vector machine and random forest, were carried out to predict methane uptake on hypothetical metal organic frameworks. To highlight their predictive capabilities, ML models were trained on 8% of a data set consisting of 130,398 MOFs and then tested on the remaining 92% to predict methane adsorption capacities. When structural and chemical descriptors were jointly used as ML input, the random forest model with 10-fold cross validation proved to be superior to the other ML approaches, with an R 2 of 0.98 and a mean absolute percent error of about 7%. The training and prediction using the random forest algorithm for adsorption capacity estimation of all 130,398 MOFs took approximately 2 h on a single personal computer, several orders of magnitude faster than actual molecular simulations on high-performance computing clusters.
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Low-cost, topological, three-dimensional, one-hot chemical encoding, and geometric descriptors are often employed for this purpose in transition-metal chemistry.
“Low-cost, topological (5, 7, 32, 92-94), three-dimensional (95-100), one-hot chemical encoding (92, 101), and geometric (e.g., for MOF pores) (102-104) descriptors are often employed for this purpose in transition-metal chemistry.”
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- Authors
- Pardakhti, M., Moharreri, E., Wanik, D., Suib, S. L., & Srivastava, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Connecticut (US)
- Corresponding author
- Srivastava, Ranjan
- Venue
- ACS Combinatorial Science
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2017-09-05
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 640-645
- ISSN
- 2156-8944 (ISSN-L)
- 2156-8952
- OpenAlex
- W2742477205
- Cited by
- 254
- References
- 42
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- FWCI
- 6.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACS Combinatorial Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Connecticut
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Inorganic Chemistry › Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Keywords
- metal-organic frameworks, methane adsorption, adsorption capacity prediction, molecular descriptors, structural descriptors, random forest, machine learning screening, materials discovery, gas storage
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Adsorption, Algorithms, Computer Simulation, Metals, Organometallic Compounds, Software
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