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High-throughput screening and material informatics have shown a great power in the discovery of novel materials, including batteries, high entropy alloys, and photocatalysts. However, the lattice thermal conductivity ( κ ) oriented high-throughput screening of advanced thermal materials is still limited to the intensive use of first principles calculations, which is inapplicable to fast, robust, and large-scale material screening due to the unbearable computational cost demanding. In this study, 15 machine learning algorithms are utilized for fast and accurate κ prediction from basic physical and chemical properties of materials. The well-trained models successfully capture the inherent correlation between these fundamental material properties and κ for different types of materials. Moreover, deep learning combined with a semi-supervised technique shows the capability of accurately predicting diverse κ values spanning 4 orders of magnitude, especially the power of extrapolative prediction on 3716 new materials. The developed models provide a powerful tool for large-scale advanced thermal functional materials screening with targeted thermal transport properties.
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High-throughput computational evaluation of lattice thermal conductivity using an optimized Slack model
High-throughput computational screening of materials with targeted thermal conductivity ( κ ) plays an important role in promoting the advancement of material design and enormous applications. The Slack model has been widely applied for the fast evaluation of κ with minimal time and resources, showing the potential capability of high-throughput screening of κ . However, after examining the Slack model on a large set of 353 materials, a huge discrepancy is found between the predicted κ and the correspondingly measured κ in experiments for some materials in addition to the generally overestimated κ by the Slack model. Thus, it is necessary to optimize the Slack model for efficiently and accurately evaluating κ . In this study, based on the high-throughput comparison of the κ predicted by the Slack model using elastic properties and those measured in experiments, an optimized Slack model is proposed. As a result, the κ predicted by the optimized Slack model agrees reasonably with the κ measured in experiments, which is much better than the previous prediction. The optimized Slack model proposed in this study can be used for further high-throughput computational evaluation of κ , which would be helpful for finding materials of ultrahigh or ultralow κ with broad applications.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1905775
- PAR ID:
- 10358940
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Materials Advances
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 17
- ISSN:
- 2633-5409
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 6826 to 6830
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ma00694d
