期刊
JACS AU
卷 2, 期 12, 页码 2693-2702出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00526
关键词
molten salts; intermediate-range structure; diffusion coefficients; Raman spectral interpretation; ab initio molecular dynamics; polarizable ion model; transferable neural network interatomic potential; neural network molecular dynamics
资金
- DOE-NE's Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) [DE-NE0009204]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [Br 5494/13]
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC0205CH11231, ASCR-ERCAP0022362, BESERCAP0022445]
LiF-NaF-ZrF4 multicomponent molten salts have desirable properties for clean energy systems, but the quantification of their complex structures and composition dependence is limited. This study utilizes machine learning potentials to accurately predict extended-range structures and shows good agreement with experimental spectra.
LiF-NaF-ZrF4 multicomponent molten salts are promising candidate coolants for advanced clean energy systems owing to their desirable thermophysical and transport properties. However, the complex structures enabling these properties, and their dependence on composition, is scarcely quantified due to limitations in simulating and interpreting experimental spectra of highly disordered, intermediate-ranged structures. Specifically, size limited ab initio simulations and accuracy-limited classical models used in the past are unable to capture a wide range of fluctuating motifs found in the extended heterogeneous structures of liquid salt. This greatly inhibits our ability to design tailored compositions and materials. Here, accurate, efficient, and transferable machine learning potentials are used to predict structures far beyond the first coordination shell in LiF-NaF-ZrF4. Neural networks trained at only eutectic compositions with 29% and 37% ZrF4 are shown to accurately simulate a wide range of compositions (11-40% ZrF4) with dramatically different coordination chemistries, while showing a remarkable agreement with theoretical and experimental Raman spectra. The theoretical Raman calculations further uncovered the previously unseen shift and flattening of bending band at similar to 250 cm-1 which validated the simulated extended-range structures as observed in compositions with higher than 29% ZrF4 content. In such cases, machine learning-based simulations capable of accessing larger time and length scales (beyond 17 angstrom) were critical for accurately predicting both structure and ionic diffusivities.
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