Finding Nature’s Missing Ternary Oxide Compounds Using Machine Learning and Density Functional Theory
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Finding new compounds and their crystal structures is an essential step to new materials discoveries. We demonstrate how this search can be accelerated using a combination of machine learning techniques and high-throughput ab initio computations. Using a probabilistic model built on an experimental crystal structure database, novel compositions that are most likely to form a compound, and their most-probable crystal structures, are identified and tested for stability by ab initio computations. We performed such a large-scale search for new ternary oxides, discovering 209 new compounds with a limited computational budget. A list of these predicted compounds is provided, and we discuss the chemistries in which high discovery rates can be expected.
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This line of research has resulted in the discovery of a hundred new ternary oxide compounds that were previously unknown using traditional approaches.
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- Authors
- Hautier, G., Fischer, C. C., Jain, A., Mueller, T., & Ceder, G.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ceder, Gerbrand
- Venue
- Chemistry of Materials
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2010-05-27
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 3762-3767
- ISSN
- 0897-4756 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5002
- OpenAlex
- W1982598895
- Cited by
- 580
- References
- 41
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- FWCI
- 8.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Chemistry of Materials (publishedVersion)
- DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Belgian American Educational Foundation
- Division of Materials Research
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Crystal Structures and Properties
- Keywords
- ternary oxides, crystal structure prediction, materials discovery, probabilistic models, crystal structure database, compound stability, high-throughput ab initio calculations, machine learning
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