Application of pretrained machine learning force fields to Li diffusion in electrolytes
Seungwu Han a
a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute of the Advanced materials, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI24)
Fundamentals: Experiment and simulation
London, United Kingdom, 2024 July 14th - 19th
Organizers: John Kilner and Stephen Skinner
Invited Speaker, Seungwu Han, presentation 483
Publication date: 10th April 2024

Recently, message-passing graph neural network interatomic potentials (GNN-IPs), particularly those with equivariant representations such as NequIP, have attracted significant attention due to their data efficiency and high accuracy. Moreover, the atomic embedding vector in GNN-IPs allows for training over large datasets with diverse chemistry, resulting in pretrained, general-purpose machine learning force fields. In this presentation, we introduce the development of an efficient parallelization scheme compatible with GNN-IPs and its implementation into a package named SevenNet (Scalable EquiVariance-Enabled Neural NETwork), which is based on the NequIP architecture. Through benchmark tests on a 32-GPU cluster with examples of SiO2, SevenNet achieves over 80% parallel efficiency in weak-scaling scenarios and exhibits nearly ideal strong-scaling performance as long as GPUs are fully utilized. We then pre-train SevenNet with a vast dataset from the Materials Project (dubbed ‘SevenNet-0’) and demonstrate its out-of-distribution generalization capabilities. We subsequently apply SevenNet-0 to investigate electrolytes in lithium batteries, such as screening organic molecules in liquid electrolytes and identifying new solid-state electrolytes. 

 

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