Benchmark Dataset for Catalysis on 2D MXenes

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Main Authors: Melnyk, Pavlo, Karmush, Anmar, Wadenbäck, Mårten, Rodríguez-Barrera, Ania Beatriz, Rosen, Johanna, Felsberg, Michael, Björk, Jonas
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author Melnyk, Pavlo
Karmush, Anmar
Wadenbäck, Mårten
Rodríguez-Barrera, Ania Beatriz
Rosen, Johanna
Felsberg, Michael
Björk, Jonas
author_facet Melnyk, Pavlo
Karmush, Anmar
Wadenbäck, Mårten
Rodríguez-Barrera, Ania Beatriz
Rosen, Johanna
Felsberg, Michael
Björk, Jonas
contents Merging first-principles calculations with machine learning (ML), we aim to accelerate the exploration of catalytic behaviour in novel materials. We focus on two-dimensional (2D) Ti$_2$CT$_y$ MXenes, whose versatile surface chemistry makes them particularly compelling candidates for catalysis. Resolving their composition and structure under realistic conditions exceeds the reach of standard density functional theory (DFT) due to computational cost. To address this challenge, we generate a comprehensive dataset of 50,000 DFT calculations for training and 10,000 for testing, encompassing both Ti$_2$CT$_y$ MXene configurations and molecular systems, along with an additional test dataset with 1000 genuinely new, larger systems to investigate how well models generalise. We train and validate widely used and competitive machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) models, including EquiformerV2, MACE, MatRIS, and UPET, that accurately predict atomic forces and formation energies -- quantities that DFT must repeatedly compute for structural and catalytic investigations -- for these 2D materials. This combined DFT-ML framework achieves computational acceleration on the order of approximately $1-4 \cdot 10^3$ (on a CPU) while maintaining desired-level accuracy (approximately +/- $10$ meV/A for forces and approximately +/- $1$ meV for per-atom energies), paving the way for more efficient investigations of MXene catalytic behaviour. Moreover, we perform an extensive qualitative evaluation of the trained models, showcasing the importance of comprehensive simulation-based comparison beyond benchmark metrics. The dataset and the trained models with the code are available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/CatalystAnonymous/catalyst_mxenes.
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spellingShingle Benchmark Dataset for Catalysis on 2D MXenes
Melnyk, Pavlo
Karmush, Anmar
Wadenbäck, Mårten
Rodríguez-Barrera, Ania Beatriz
Rosen, Johanna
Felsberg, Michael
Björk, Jonas
Materials Science
Machine Learning
Merging first-principles calculations with machine learning (ML), we aim to accelerate the exploration of catalytic behaviour in novel materials. We focus on two-dimensional (2D) Ti$_2$CT$_y$ MXenes, whose versatile surface chemistry makes them particularly compelling candidates for catalysis. Resolving their composition and structure under realistic conditions exceeds the reach of standard density functional theory (DFT) due to computational cost. To address this challenge, we generate a comprehensive dataset of 50,000 DFT calculations for training and 10,000 for testing, encompassing both Ti$_2$CT$_y$ MXene configurations and molecular systems, along with an additional test dataset with 1000 genuinely new, larger systems to investigate how well models generalise. We train and validate widely used and competitive machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) models, including EquiformerV2, MACE, MatRIS, and UPET, that accurately predict atomic forces and formation energies -- quantities that DFT must repeatedly compute for structural and catalytic investigations -- for these 2D materials. This combined DFT-ML framework achieves computational acceleration on the order of approximately $1-4 \cdot 10^3$ (on a CPU) while maintaining desired-level accuracy (approximately +/- $10$ meV/A for forces and approximately +/- $1$ meV for per-atom energies), paving the way for more efficient investigations of MXene catalytic behaviour. Moreover, we perform an extensive qualitative evaluation of the trained models, showcasing the importance of comprehensive simulation-based comparison beyond benchmark metrics. The dataset and the trained models with the code are available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/CatalystAnonymous/catalyst_mxenes.
title Benchmark Dataset for Catalysis on 2D MXenes
topic Materials Science
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00794