Accelerating Discovery of Extreme Lattice Thermal Conductivity by Crystal Attention Graph Neural Network (CATGNN) Using Chemical Bonding Intuitive Descriptors

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Main Authors: Al-Fahdi, Mohammed, Rurali, Riccardo, Hu, Jianjun, Wolverton, Christopher, Hu, Ming
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author Al-Fahdi, Mohammed
Rurali, Riccardo
Hu, Jianjun
Wolverton, Christopher
Hu, Ming
author_facet Al-Fahdi, Mohammed
Rurali, Riccardo
Hu, Jianjun
Wolverton, Christopher
Hu, Ming
contents Designing materials with targeted lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) demands electronic-level insight into chemical bonding. We introduce two bonding descriptors, namely normalized negative integrated crystal orbital Hamilton populations (-ICOHP) and normalized integrated crystal orbital bond index (ICOBI), that strongly correlate with LTC and rattling (mean-squared displacement), surpassing empirical rules and the unnormalized -ICOHP across >4,500 inorganic crystals by first-principles. We train a Crystal Attention Graph Neural Network (CATGNN) to predict these descriptors and screen ~200,000 database structures for extreme LTCs. From 367 (533) candidates with low (high) normalized -ICOHP and normalized ICOBI, first-principles validation identifies 106 dynamically stable compounds with LTC <5 W/mK (68% <2 W/mK) and 13 stable compounds with LTC >100 W/mK. The descriptors' low cost and clear physical meaning provide a rapid, reliable route to high-throughput discovery and inverse design of crystalline materials with ultralow or ultrahigh LTC for applications in thermal insulation, thermoelectrics, and electronics cooling.
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spellingShingle Accelerating Discovery of Extreme Lattice Thermal Conductivity by Crystal Attention Graph Neural Network (CATGNN) Using Chemical Bonding Intuitive Descriptors
Al-Fahdi, Mohammed
Rurali, Riccardo
Hu, Jianjun
Wolverton, Christopher
Hu, Ming
Materials Science
Designing materials with targeted lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) demands electronic-level insight into chemical bonding. We introduce two bonding descriptors, namely normalized negative integrated crystal orbital Hamilton populations (-ICOHP) and normalized integrated crystal orbital bond index (ICOBI), that strongly correlate with LTC and rattling (mean-squared displacement), surpassing empirical rules and the unnormalized -ICOHP across >4,500 inorganic crystals by first-principles. We train a Crystal Attention Graph Neural Network (CATGNN) to predict these descriptors and screen ~200,000 database structures for extreme LTCs. From 367 (533) candidates with low (high) normalized -ICOHP and normalized ICOBI, first-principles validation identifies 106 dynamically stable compounds with LTC <5 W/mK (68% <2 W/mK) and 13 stable compounds with LTC >100 W/mK. The descriptors' low cost and clear physical meaning provide a rapid, reliable route to high-throughput discovery and inverse design of crystalline materials with ultralow or ultrahigh LTC for applications in thermal insulation, thermoelectrics, and electronics cooling.
title Accelerating Discovery of Extreme Lattice Thermal Conductivity by Crystal Attention Graph Neural Network (CATGNN) Using Chemical Bonding Intuitive Descriptors
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16066