用机器学习精准预测催化剂反应能垒,提升催化材料筛选效率
Transition States Energies from Machine Learning: An Application to Reverse Water-Gas Shift on Single-Atom Alloys
- 基于图核的高斯过程回归模型预测过渡态能量
- 相比传统方法,反应速率预测误差降低近一个数量级
- 适合需要高精度能垒预测的催化剂研发人员
准确获取过渡态(TS)能量是复杂材料与反应网络计算筛选的瓶颈,源于过渡态搜索和第一性原理方法(如密度泛函理论,DFT)成本过高。本文提出一种基于瓦瑟斯坦魏斯费勒-莱曼图核(WWL-GPR)的高斯过程回归机器学习模型,用于预测过渡态能量。将该模型应用于单原子合金(SAA)催化剂上的逆水煤气变换(RWGS)反应,结果显示其在吸附能与过渡态能预测上显著优于依赖尺度关系或缺乏图表示的机器学习模型。得益于训练成本低,通过子采样训练集成模型,可量化不确定性,并在微动力学模型集成中传递至转化频率(TOF)预测。对比基于模型与基于DFT的TOF预测误差,发现该模型使误差降低近一个数量级,凸显精确能量预测对催化活性评估的关键作用。最后,利用该模型筛选新材料,识别出有前景的RWGS催化剂。本工作展示了先进机器学习与DFT及微动力学建模结合,在复杂反应如RWGS催化剂筛选中的强大潜力,为未来催化剂设计提供稳健框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Obtaining accurate transition state (TS) energies is a bottleneck in computational screening of complex materials and reaction networks due to the high cost of TS search methods and first-principles methods such as density functional theory (DFT). Here we propose a machine learning (ML) model for predicting TS energies based on Gaussian process regression with the Wasserstein Weisfeiler-Lehman graph kernel (WWL-GPR). Applying the model to predict adsorption and TS energies for the reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reaction on single-atom alloy (SAA) catalysts, we show that it can significantly improve the accuracy compared to traditional approaches based on scaling relations or ML models without a graph representation. Further benefitting from the low cost of model training, we train an ensemble of WWL-GPR models to obtain uncertainties through subsampling of the training data and show how these uncertainties propagate to turnover frequency (TOF) predictions through the construction of an ensemble of microkinetic models. Comparing the errors in model-based vs DFT-based TOF predictions, we show that the WWL-GPR model reduces errors by almost an order of magnitude compared to scaling relations. This demonstrates the critical impact of accurate energy predictions on catalytic activity estimation. Finally, we apply our model to screen new materials, identifying promising catalysts for RWGS. This work highlights the power of combining advanced ML techniques with DFT and microkinetic modeling for screening catalysts for complex reactions like RWGS, providing a robust framework for future catalyst design.
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