{"id":123765,"date":"2021-06-13T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/machine-learning-aids-in-materials-design"},"modified":"2021-06-13T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:22:37","slug":"machine-learning-aids-in-materials-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/machine-learning-aids-in-materials-design","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning aids in materials design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-aids-in-materials-design.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long-held goal by chemists across many industries, including energy, pharmaceuticals, energetics, food additives and organic semiconductors, is to imagine the chemical structure of a new molecule and be able to predict how it will function for a desired application. In practice, this vision is difficult, often requiring extensive laboratory work to synthesize, isolate, purify and characterize newly designed molecules to obtain the desired information.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) materials and computer scientists have brought this vision to fruition for energetic molecules by creating machine learning (ML) models that can predict molecules\u2019 crystalline properties from their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+structures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical structures<\/a> alone, such as molecular density. Predicting crystal structure descriptors (rather than the entire crystal structure) offers an efficient method to infer a material\u2019s properties, thus expediting materials design and discovery. The research appears in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the team\u2019s most prominent ML models is capable of predicting the crystalline density of energetic and energetic-like molecules with a high degree of accuracy compared to previous ML-based methods,\u201d said Phan Nguyen, LLNL applied mathematician and co-first author of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-held goal by chemists across many industries, including energy, pharmaceuticals, energetics, food additives and organic semiconductors, is to imagine the chemical structure of a new molecule and be able to predict how it will function for a desired application. In practice, this vision is difficult, often requiring extensive laboratory work to synthesize, isolate, purify [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}