Physically Compatible Machine Learning Study on the Pt–Ni Nanoclusters

Autor: Liang Liu, Xi Zhang, Huijie Zhen, Siyan Gao, Zezhou Lin, Xiaolin Li
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12:1573-1580
ISSN: 1948-7185
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03600
Popis: Pt-Ni alloy nanoclusters are essential for high-performance catalysis, and the full description for the finite temperature properties is highly desired. Here we developed an efficient machine learning method to evaluate the accurate structure-stability correspondence in a Pt(85-x)-Nix nanocluster over the structural space with a dimension of 3.84 × 1025. On the basis of the physical model and big-data analysis, for the first time, we demonstrated that the segregation-extent bond order parameter (BOP) and the shell-resolved undercoordination ratio play the key roles in the structural stability. This a priori knowledge extremely reduced the computational costs and enhanced the accuracies. With the 500-sample train data set generated by density functional theory (DFT)-level geometry optimizations, we fit the machine-learning excess energy potential and verified the mean-square-error is
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