用神经网络快速预测嵌段共聚物自由能,替代耗时的模拟计算。
Rapid Neural Network Prediction of Linear Block Copolymer Free Energies
- 基于粒子动力学模拟数据,训练神经网络学习能量描述符与自由能关系。
- 模型在不同链长、组成和密度下预测准确,即使直接模拟失效时仍可靠。
- 适合需要快速热力学分析的高分子材料设计与仿真研究者。
自由能是决定聚合物体系相行为与热力学稳定性的基本量,但精确计算常需大量模拟与后处理技术(如Bennett接受比,BAR)。当相互作用强度变化大时,传统BAR需多步中间模拟以保证相空间重叠,显著增加计算成本。本文构建了一种机器学习框架,通过自由连接链聚合物的耗散粒子动力学模拟,获取每链能量统计量(异质/同质相互作用能、键合弹簧能),训练前馈神经网络学习其与经分层BAR方法计算的超额自由能之间的映射关系。模型在多种链长、组分与密度条件下均能准确复现参考自由能,包括训练中未见的聚合物结构。在直接暴力BAR因相空间重叠差而失效的区域,神经网络预测仍与参考值一致。结果表明,物理启发的机器学习模型可作为昂贵自由能计算的有效代理,为加速聚合物系统热力学分析提供新路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Free energies are fundamental quantities governing phase behavior and thermodynamic stability in polymer systems, yet their accurate computation often requires extensive simulations and post-processing techniques such as the Bennett Acceptance Ratio (BAR). While BAR provides reliable estimates when applied between closely related thermodynamic states, evaluating free energies across large changes in interaction strength typically requires a sequence of intermediate simulations to maintain sufficient phase-space overlap, substantially increasing computational cost. In this work we develop a machine learning framework for rapidly predicting excess free energies of linear diblock copolymer systems from simulation-derived energetic descriptors. Using dissipative particle dynamics simulations of freely-jointed chain polymers, we construct a dataset of per-chain energetic statistics, including heterogeneous interaction energies, homogeneous interaction energies, and bonded spring energies, and train feed-forward neural networks to learn the relationship between these descriptors and free energies computed using a stratified BAR procedure. The resulting models accurately reproduce the reference free energies across a range of chain lengths, compositions, and densities, including polymer architectures held out from training. In regimes where direct, brute-force BAR estimates become unreliable due to poor phase-space overlap, the neural network predictions remain consistent with the reference values. These results demonstrate that physically informed machine learning models can serve as efficient surrogates for expensive free-energy calculations and provide a promising approach for accelerating thermodynamic analysis of polymer systems.
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