Machine-Learning-Assisted Discovery of High-Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts

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Iridium oxide (IrO2) is the predominant electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), but its low efficiency and high cost limit its applications. In this work, we have developed a strategy by combination of high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) and machine learning (ML) techniques for material discovery on IrO2-based electrocatalysts with enhanced OER activity. A total of 36 kinds of metal dopants are considered to substitute for Ir to form binary and ternary metal oxides, and the most stable surface structures are selected from a total of 4648 structures for OER activity evaluation. Utilizing the neural network language model (NNLM), we associate the atomic environment with the formation energies of crystals and free energies of OER intermediates, and finally a series of potential candidates have been screened as the superior OER catalysts. Our strategy could efficiently explore promising electrocatalysts, especially for evaluating complex multi-metallic compounds.
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  • Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology
  • Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BZ2020011)
  • Fundo para o Desenvolvimento das Ci?ncias e da Tecnologia (0052/2021/A)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (21973067, 22173067)
  • Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions

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