Data-Driven Research in Physical Chemistry

A special issue of Physchem (ISSN 2673-7167).

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Interests: metal ion batteries; solar cells; computational spectroscopy; machine learning
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Interests: computational design of new porous organic cages; photo-responsive smart functional molecular materials; organic ferroelectrics; design cage catalysts for CO2 capture and conversion

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Data-driven solutions have the potential to address both long-standing and newly emerging problems in the natural sciences. Specifically, machine-learning approaches have broken new ground, for example, in the construction of interatomic potentials and energy functionals for systems where traditional analytic or numeric solutions have been unsatisfactory.

In this Special Issue, we aim to publish papers that use or develop data-driven methods, including machine-learning- and artificial-intelligence-based approaches, to solve research problems in physical chemistry. Topics include but are not limited to the use of data-based techniques for

  • Energy functionals;
  • ODE solvers;
  • Vibrational and electronic spectroscopy;
  • Molecular dynamics;
  • Structure–property relationships of materials;
  • Data driven/ML-based optimization of processes in materials and catalysis.

We also encourage authors to submit papers that use data-based approaches in research areas relatively less impacted by them to date as well as papers using machine learning from big datasets, as well as from sparse (small) datasets.

Dr. Sergei Manzhos
Dr. Pavlo Dral
Dr. Shan Jiang
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  • machine learning
  • artificial intelligence

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Advanced Machine Learning Methods for Learning from Sparse Data in High-Dimensional Spaces: A Perspective on Uses in the Upstream of Development of Novel Energy Technologies
by Sergei Manzhos and Manabu Ihara
Physchem 2022, 2(2), 72-95; https://doi.org/10.3390/physchem2020006 - 29 Mar 2022
Cited by 12 | Viewed by 4193
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Machine learning (ML) has found increasing use in physical sciences, including research on energy conversion and storage technologies, in particular, so-called sustainable technologies. While often ML is used to directly optimize the parameters or phenomena of interest in the space of features, in [...] Read more.
Machine learning (ML) has found increasing use in physical sciences, including research on energy conversion and storage technologies, in particular, so-called sustainable technologies. While often ML is used to directly optimize the parameters or phenomena of interest in the space of features, in this perspective, we focus on using ML to construct objects and methods that help in or enable the modeling of the underlying phenomena. We highlight the need for machine learning from very sparse and unevenly distributed numeric data in multidimensional spaces in these applications. After a brief introduction of some common regression-type machine learning techniques, we focus on more advanced ML techniques which use these known methods as building blocks of more complex schemes and thereby allow working with extremely sparse data and also allow generating insight. Specifically, we will highlight the utility of using representations with subdimensional functions by combining the high-dimensional model representation ansatz with machine learning methods such as neural networks or Gaussian process regressions in applications ranging from heterogeneous catalysis to nuclear energy. Full article
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