Machine-Learning-Accelerated Perovskite Crystallization

Autor: Yuan Gao, Douglas A. Kuntz, Dongxin Ma, Mikhail Askerka, Andrew Johnston, Gilbert G. Privé, Edward H. Sargent, Petar Todorović, Jeffrey Kirman
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Matter. 2:938-947
ISSN: 2590-2385
Popis: Summary Perovskites have seen significant research interest in the last decade. As ternary and quaternary compounds, their chemical space is exceptionally large, yet perovskite development has been limited to a restricted set of chemical constituents often discovered through trial and error. Here, we report a high-throughput experimental framework for the discovery of new perovskite single crystals. We use machine learning (ML) to guide the sequence of ever-improved robotic synthetic trials. We perform high-throughput syntheses of perovskite single crystals with a protein crystallization robot and characterize the outcomes with the aid of convolutional neural network-based image recognition. We then use an ML model to predict the optimal conditions for the synthesis of a new perovskite single crystal, enabling us to report the first synthesis of (3-PLA)2PbCl4.This material exhibits strong blue emission, illustrating the applicability of the method in identifying new optoelectronic materials.
Databáze: OpenAIRE