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ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
Volume 54, Issue 4, Pages 849-860Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00785
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- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [191127]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC [PGSD3-534584-2019]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the Erwin Schrodinger fellowship [J4309]
- Fonds de Recherche Quebec Nature et Technologies (FRQNT)
- Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST)
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG0217ER16362]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science-Chicago [DESC0019300]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Accelerated Molecular Discovery Program [HR00111920027]
- Natural Resources Canada
- Canada 150 Research Chairs program
- Department of Navy award [N00014-191-2134]
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Government
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The ongoing revolution in the natural sciences, driven by machine learning and artificial intelligence, has sparked significant interest in the material science community. To address the imminent climate catastrophe and transform to clean energy, the development of new materials is crucial. New materials, such as organic photovoltaics, show great potential in replacing existing materials and opening up new applications.
The ongoing revolution of the natural sciences by the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence sparked significant interest in the material science community in recent years. The intrinsically high dimensionality of the space of realizable materials makes traditional approaches ineffective for large-scale explorations. Modern data science and machine learning tools developed for increasingly complicated problems are an attractive alternative. An imminent climate catastrophe calls for a clean energy transformation by overhauling current technologies within only several years of possible action available. Tackling this crisis requires the development of new materials at an unprecedented pace and scale. For example, organic photovoltaics have the potential to replace existing silicon-based materials to a large extent and open up new fields of application. In recent years, organic light-emitting diodes have emerged as state-of-the-art technology for digital screens and portable devices and are enabling new applications with flexible displays. Reticular frameworks allow the atom-precise synthesis of nanomaterials and promise to revolutionize the field by the potential to realize multifunctional nanopartides with applications from gas storage, gas separation, and electrochemical energy storage to nanomedicine. In the recent decade, significant advances in all these fields have been facilitated by the comprehensive application of simulation and machine learning for property prediction, property optimization, and chemical space exploration enabled by considerable advances in computing power and algorithmic efficiency. In this Account, we review the most recent contributions of our group in this thriving field of machine learning for material science. We start with a summary of the most important material classes our group has been involved in, focusing on small molecules as organic electronic materials and crystalline materials. Specifically, we highlight the data-driven approaches we employed to speed up discovery and derive material design strategies. Subsequently, our focus lies on the data-driven methodologies our group has developed and employed, elaborating on high-throughput virtual screening, inverse molecular design, Bayesian optimization, and supervised learning. We discuss the general ideas, their working principles, and their use cases with examples of successful implementations in data-driven material discovery and design efforts. Furthermore, we elaborate on potential pitfalls and remaining challenges of these methods. Finally, we provide a brief outlook for the field as we foresee increasing adaptation and implementation of large scale data-driven approaches in material discovery and design campaigns.
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