Exploring high thermal conductivity polymers via interpretable machine learning with physical descriptors

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Autori principali: Huang, Xiang, Ma, Shengluo, Zhao, C. Y., Wang, Hong, Ju, Shenghong
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author Huang, Xiang
Ma, Shengluo
Zhao, C. Y.
Wang, Hong
Ju, Shenghong
author_facet Huang, Xiang
Ma, Shengluo
Zhao, C. Y.
Wang, Hong
Ju, Shenghong
contents The efficient and economical exploitation of polymers with high thermal conductivity is essential to solve the issue of heat dissipation in organic devices. Currently, the experimental preparation of functional thermal conductivity polymers remains a trial and error process due to the multi-degrees of freedom during the synthesis and characterization process. In this work, we have proposed a high-throughput screening framework for polymer chains with high thermal conductivity via interpretable machine learning and physical-feature engineering. The polymer thermal conductivity datasets for training were first collected by molecular dynamics simulation. Inspired by the drug-like small molecule representation and molecular force field, 320 polymer monomer descriptors were calculated and the 20 optimized descriptors with physical meaning were extracted by hierarchical down-selection. All the machine learning models achieve a prediction accuracy R2 greater than 0.80, which is superior to that of represented by traditional graph descriptors. Further, the cross-sectional area and dihedral stiffness descriptors were identified for positive/negative contribution to thermal conductivity, and 107 promising polymer structures with thermal conductivity greater than 20.00 W/mK were obtained. Mathematical formulas for predicting the polymer thermal conductivity were also constructed by using symbolic regression. The high thermal conductivity polymer structures are mostly π-conjugated, whose overlapping p-orbitals enable easily to maintain strong chain stiffness and large group velocities. The proposed data-driven framework should facilitate the theoretical and experimental design of polymers with desirable properties.
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spellingShingle Exploring high thermal conductivity polymers via interpretable machine learning with physical descriptors
Huang, Xiang
Ma, Shengluo
Zhao, C. Y.
Wang, Hong
Ju, Shenghong
Materials Science
Soft Condensed Matter
Applied Physics
Computational Physics
The efficient and economical exploitation of polymers with high thermal conductivity is essential to solve the issue of heat dissipation in organic devices. Currently, the experimental preparation of functional thermal conductivity polymers remains a trial and error process due to the multi-degrees of freedom during the synthesis and characterization process. In this work, we have proposed a high-throughput screening framework for polymer chains with high thermal conductivity via interpretable machine learning and physical-feature engineering. The polymer thermal conductivity datasets for training were first collected by molecular dynamics simulation. Inspired by the drug-like small molecule representation and molecular force field, 320 polymer monomer descriptors were calculated and the 20 optimized descriptors with physical meaning were extracted by hierarchical down-selection. All the machine learning models achieve a prediction accuracy R2 greater than 0.80, which is superior to that of represented by traditional graph descriptors. Further, the cross-sectional area and dihedral stiffness descriptors were identified for positive/negative contribution to thermal conductivity, and 107 promising polymer structures with thermal conductivity greater than 20.00 W/mK were obtained. Mathematical formulas for predicting the polymer thermal conductivity were also constructed by using symbolic regression. The high thermal conductivity polymer structures are mostly π-conjugated, whose overlapping p-orbitals enable easily to maintain strong chain stiffness and large group velocities. The proposed data-driven framework should facilitate the theoretical and experimental design of polymers with desirable properties.
title Exploring high thermal conductivity polymers via interpretable machine learning with physical descriptors
topic Materials Science
Soft Condensed Matter
Applied Physics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03030