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| author | Zhang, Junji Pagotto, Joshua Gould, Tim Duignan, Timothy T. |
| author_facet | Zhang, Junji Pagotto, Joshua Gould, Tim Duignan, Timothy T. |
| contents | Electrolyte solutions play critical role in a vast range of important applications, yet an accurate and scalable method of predicting their properties without fitting to experiment has remained out of reach, despite over a century of effort. Here, we combine state-of-the-art density functional theory and equivariant neural network potentials to demonstrate this capability, reproducing key structural, thermodynamic, and kinetic properties. We show that neural network potentials (NNPs) can be recursively trained on a subset of their own output to enable coarse-grained/continuum-solvent molecular simulations that can access much longer timescales than possible with all atom simulations. We observe the surprising formation of Li cation dimers along with identical anion-anion pairing of chloride and bromide anions. Finally, we reproduce simulate the crystal phase and infinite dilution pairing free energies despite being trained only on moderate concentration solutions. This approach should be scaled to build a greatly expanded database of electrolyte solution properties than currently exists. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Scalable molecular simulation of electrolyte solutions with quantum chemical accuracy Zhang, Junji Pagotto, Joshua Gould, Tim Duignan, Timothy T. Chemical Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics Computational Physics Electrolyte solutions play critical role in a vast range of important applications, yet an accurate and scalable method of predicting their properties without fitting to experiment has remained out of reach, despite over a century of effort. Here, we combine state-of-the-art density functional theory and equivariant neural network potentials to demonstrate this capability, reproducing key structural, thermodynamic, and kinetic properties. We show that neural network potentials (NNPs) can be recursively trained on a subset of their own output to enable coarse-grained/continuum-solvent molecular simulations that can access much longer timescales than possible with all atom simulations. We observe the surprising formation of Li cation dimers along with identical anion-anion pairing of chloride and bromide anions. Finally, we reproduce simulate the crystal phase and infinite dilution pairing free energies despite being trained only on moderate concentration solutions. This approach should be scaled to build a greatly expanded database of electrolyte solution properties than currently exists. |
| title | Scalable molecular simulation of electrolyte solutions with quantum chemical accuracy |
| topic | Chemical Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12535 |