用AI设计共聚物,能自动优化单体比例和链结构。
Inverse Design of Copolymers Including Stoichiometry and Chain Architecture
- 基于图-字符串混合的变分自编码器,生成含比例与链结构的共聚物。
- 在部分标注数据下仍可学习,实现从零生成新型共聚物结构。
- 可用于逆向设计高效光催化产氢材料,优化电子亲和力与电离势。
对高性能合成聚合物的需求日益增长,但其结构复杂性和庞大的设计空间阻碍了快速发现。机器学习辅助分子设计有望加速聚合物研发,但标签数据稀缺及合成聚合物复杂的层级结构使生成式设计尤为困难。本文提出一种新方法,不仅能生成重复单元,还能生成包含单体比例和链架构的单体组合。基于一种包含单体比例与链结构的新表示方式,我们构建了一个新颖的变分自编码器(VAE),该模型以图结构编码、以字符串解码。采用半监督设置,可处理部分标注数据,在小规模标注数据场景中具有优势。模型学习到一个连续且有序的潜在空间(LS),支持从零生成包含不同单体比例与链架构的共聚物结构。在逆向设计案例研究中,我们利用潜在空间优化聚合物的电子亲和力与电离势,实现了用于产氢的新型共轭共聚物光催化剂的虚拟发现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The demand for innovative synthetic polymers with improved properties is high, but their structural complexity and vast design space hinder rapid discovery. Machine learning-guided molecular design is a promising approach to accelerate polymer discovery. However, the scarcity of labeled polymer data and the complex hierarchical structure of synthetic polymers make generative design particularly challenging. We advance the current state-of-the-art approaches to generate not only repeating units, but monomer ensembles including their stoichiometry and chain architecture. We build upon a recent polymer representation that includes stoichiometries and chain architectures of monomer ensembles and develop a novel variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture encoding a graph and decoding a string. Using a semi-supervised setup, we enable the handling of partly labelled datasets which can be benefitial for domains with a small corpus of labelled data. Our model learns a continuous, well organized latent space (LS) that enables de-novo generation of copolymer structures including different monomer stoichiometries and chain architectures. In an inverse design case study, we demonstrate our model for in-silico discovery of novel conjugated copolymer photocatalysts for hydrogen production using optimization of the polymer's electron affinity and ionization potential in the latent space.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。