首个从重复单元生成真实聚合物三维结构的模型,加速新材料设计。
polyGen: A Learning Framework for Atomic-level Polymer Structure Generation
- 用图编码+扩散变换器生成聚合物原子结构,支持柔性构象。
- 在3855个结构数据上训练,结合小分子数据提升生成质量。
- 适合材料设计、化学工程领域,突破传统方法局限。
合成聚合物材料支撑能源、电子、消费品和医疗等核心技术,但其开发仍面临周期长的问题。尽管已有聚合物信息学工具助力提速,但按需生成符合构象多样性的真实3D原子结构仍面临挑战。现有生成算法适用于无机晶体、生物聚合物和小分子,却未解决合成聚合物因表示与数据集限制带来的难题。本文提出polyGen,首个仅需重复单元化学信息即可生成聚合物结构的生成模型。该模型结合图编码与潜在扩散变换器,并采用位置偏置注意力机制以生成真实构象。针对仅有3,855个经密度泛函理论(DFT)优化的聚合物结构的有限数据集,引入小分子数据进行联合训练以提升生成质量。同时建立结构匹配标准以评估本问题的新方法。polyGen克服了传统晶体结构预测在聚合物上的局限,成功生成具有真实性和多样性的线性及支化构象,对大重复单元也表现良好。作为首个实现聚合物内在柔性的原子级概念验证,标志着材料结构生成能力的新突破。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Synthetic polymeric materials underpin fundamental technologies in the energy, electronics, consumer goods, and medical sectors, yet their development still suffers from prolonged design timelines. Although polymer informatics tools have supported speedup, polymer simulation protocols continue to face significant challenges in the on-demand generation of realistic 3D atomic structures that respect conformational diversity. Generative algorithms for 3D structures of inorganic crystals, bio-polymers, and small molecules exist, but have not addressed synthetic polymers because of challenges in representation and dataset constraints. In this work, we introduce polyGen, the first generative model designed specifically for polymer structures from minimal inputs such as the repeat unit chemistry alone. polyGen combines graph-based encodings with a latent diffusion transformer using positional biased attention for realistic conformation generation. Given the limited dataset of 3,855 DFT-optimized polymer structures, we incorporate joint training with small molecule data to enhance generation quality. We also establish structure matching criteria to benchmark our approach on this novel problem. polyGen overcomes the limitations of traditional crystal structure prediction methods for polymers, successfully generating realistic and diverse linear and branched conformations, with promising performance even on challenging large repeat units. As the first atomic-level proof-of-concept capturing intrinsic polymer flexibility, it marks a new capability in material structure generation.
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