Computational materials science increasingly benefits from data management,automation,and algorithm-based decision-making for the simulation of material properties and behavior.Experimental materials science also chan...Computational materials science increasingly benefits from data management,automation,and algorithm-based decision-making for the simulation of material properties and behavior.Experimental materials science also changes rapidly by incorporation of‘machine learning’in materials discovery campaigns.The benefits including automation,reproducibility,data provenance,and reusability of managed data,however,are not widely available in the experimental domain.We present an implementation of an Active Learning loop with an interface to an experimental measurement device in pyiron as a demonstrator how to combine experimental and simulated data in one framework.Apart from the acceleration provided through active learning,additional acceleration of the experimental characterization is achieved by using prior knowledge from density functional theory simulations as well as predictions based on text mining using correlations in word embeddings.With data from all domains in the same framework,an untapped potential for the acceleration of materials characterization and materials discovery campaigns becomes available.展开更多
Information technology and data science development stimulate transformation in many fields of scientific knowledge.In recent years,a large number of specialised systems for information and knowledge management have b...Information technology and data science development stimulate transformation in many fields of scientific knowledge.In recent years,a large number of specialised systems for information and knowledge management have been created in materials science.However,the development and deployment of open adaptive systems for research support in materials science based on the acquisition,storage,and processing of different types of information remains unsolved.We propose MatInf-an extensible,open-source solution for research digitalisation in materials science based on an adaptive,flexible information management systemfor heterogeneous data sources.MatInf can be easily adapted to any materials science laboratory and is especially useful for collaborative projects between several labs.As an example,we demonstrate its application in high-throughput experimentation.展开更多
We apply variational autoencoders(VAE)to X-ray diffraction(XRD)data analysis on both simulated and experimental thin-film data.We show that crystal structure representations learned by a VAE reveal latent information,...We apply variational autoencoders(VAE)to X-ray diffraction(XRD)data analysis on both simulated and experimental thin-film data.We show that crystal structure representations learned by a VAE reveal latent information,such as the structural similarity of textured diffraction patterns.While other artificial intelligence(AI)agents are effective at classifying XRD data into known phases,a similarly conditioned VAE is uniquely effective at knowing what it doesn’t know:it can rapidly identify data outside the distribution it was trained on,such as novel phases and mixtures.These capabilities demonstrate that a VAE is a valuable AI agent for aiding materials discovery and understanding XRD measurements both‘on-the-fly’and during post hoc analysis.展开更多
基金funding from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG)through project LU1175/26-1LZ and MS gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the China Scholarship Council(CSC number:202208360048)MS,LB,JN,and AL gratefully acknowledge funding by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG)for CRC1625,project number 506711657,subprojects A01,A04,A05,INF.
摘要Computational materials science increasingly benefits from data management,automation,and algorithm-based decision-making for the simulation of material properties and behavior.Experimental materials science also changes rapidly by incorporation of‘machine learning’in materials discovery campaigns.The benefits including automation,reproducibility,data provenance,and reusability of managed data,however,are not widely available in the experimental domain.We present an implementation of an Active Learning loop with an interface to an experimental measurement device in pyiron as a demonstrator how to combine experimental and simulated data in one framework.Apart from the acceleration provided through active learning,additional acceleration of the experimental characterization is achieved by using prior knowledge from density functional theory simulations as well as predictions based on text mining using correlations in word embeddings.With data from all domains in the same framework,an untapped potential for the acceleration of materials characterization and materials discovery campaigns becomes available.
基金supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)Project-ID 388390466-TRR 247(subproject INF)funding from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)-CRC 1625,project number 506711657,subproject INF.
摘要Information technology and data science development stimulate transformation in many fields of scientific knowledge.In recent years,a large number of specialised systems for information and knowledge management have been created in materials science.However,the development and deployment of open adaptive systems for research support in materials science based on the acquisition,storage,and processing of different types of information remains unsolved.We propose MatInf-an extensible,open-source solution for research digitalisation in materials science based on an adaptive,flexible information management systemfor heterogeneous data sources.MatInf can be easily adapted to any materials science laboratory and is especially useful for collaborative projects between several labs.As an example,we demonstrate its application in high-throughput experimentation.
基金This study was funded by the German Research Foundation(DFG)as part of Collaborative Research Centers SFB-TR 87 and SFB-TR 103This research used resources of the National Synchrotron Light Source II,a U.S.Department of Energy(DOE)Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No.DE-SC0012704the BNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development(LDRD)project 20-032‘Accelerating materials discovery with total scattering via machine learning’.The center for interface dominated high-performance materials(ZGH,Ruhr-Universität Bochum,Bochum,Germany)is acknowledged for X-ray diffraction experiments.
摘要We apply variational autoencoders(VAE)to X-ray diffraction(XRD)data analysis on both simulated and experimental thin-film data.We show that crystal structure representations learned by a VAE reveal latent information,such as the structural similarity of textured diffraction patterns.While other artificial intelligence(AI)agents are effective at classifying XRD data into known phases,a similarly conditioned VAE is uniquely effective at knowing what it doesn’t know:it can rapidly identify data outside the distribution it was trained on,such as novel phases and mixtures.These capabilities demonstrate that a VAE is a valuable AI agent for aiding materials discovery and understanding XRD measurements both‘on-the-fly’and during post hoc analysis.