{"title":"Effect of signal-to-noise ratio on the automatic clustering of X-ray diffraction patterns from combinatorial libraries","authors":"Yuanxun Zhou, Biao Wu, Jianhao Wang, Hong Wang","doi":"10.1002/mgea.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mgea.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hierarchical clustering algorithm has been applied to identify the X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns from a high-throughput characterization of the combinatorial materials chips. As data quality is usually correlated with acquisition time, it is important to study the hierarchical clustering performance as a function of data quality in order to optimize the efficiency of high-throughput experiments. This work investigated the effects of signal-to-noise ratio on the performance of hierarchical clustering using 29 distance metrics for the XRD patterns from Fe−Co−Ni ternary combinatorial materials chip. It is found that the clustering accuracies evaluated by the F1 score only fluctuate slightly with signal-to-noise ratio varying from 15.5 to 22.3 (dB) under the experimental condition. This suggests that although it may take 40–50 s to collect a visually high-quality diffraction pattern, the measurement time could be significantly reduced to as low as 4 s without substantial loss in phase identification accuracy by hierarchical clustering. Among the 29 distance metrics, Pearson χ<sup>2</sup> shows the highest mean F1 score of 0.77 and lowest standard deviation of 0.008. It shows that the distance matrixes calculated by Pearson χ<sup>2</sup> are mainly controlled by the XRD peak shifting characteristics and visualized by the metric multidimensional data scaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140209652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Longfei Zhu, Qun Luo, Qiaochuan Chen, Yu Zhang, Lijun Zhang, Bin Hu, Yuexing Han, Qian Li
{"title":"Prediction of ultimate tensile strength of Al-Si alloys based on multimodal fusion learning","authors":"Longfei Zhu, Qun Luo, Qiaochuan Chen, Yu Zhang, Lijun Zhang, Bin Hu, Yuexing Han, Qian Li","doi":"10.1002/mgea.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mgea.26","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Exploring the “composition-microstructure-property” relationship is a long-standing theme in materials science. However, complex interactions make this area of research challenging. Based on the image processing and machine learning techniques, this paper proposes a multimodal fusion learning framework that comprehensively considers both composition and microstructure in prediction of the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of Al-Si alloys. Firstly, the composition and image information are collected from the literature and supplementary experiments, followed by the image segmentation and quantitative analysis of eutectic Si images. Subsequently, the quantitative analysis results are combined with other features for three-step feature screening, and 12 key features are obtained. Finally, four machine-learning models (i.e., decision tree, random forest, adaptive boosting, and extreme gradient boosting [XGBoost]) are used to predict the UTS of Al-Si alloys. The results show that the quantitative analysis method proposed in this paper is superior to Image-Pro Plus (IPP) software in some aspects. The XGBoost model has the best prediction performance with <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.94. Furthermore, five mixed features and their critical values that significantly affect UTS are identified. Our study provides enlightenment for the prediction of UTS of Al-Si alloys from composition and microstructure, and would be applicable to other alloys.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.26","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140209654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sajid Mannan, Vaibhav Bihani, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, John C. Mauro
{"title":"Navigating energy landscapes for materials discovery: Integrating modeling, simulation, and machine learning","authors":"Sajid Mannan, Vaibhav Bihani, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, John C. Mauro","doi":"10.1002/mgea.25","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.25","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The energy landscape represents a high-dimensional mapping of the configurational states of an atomic system with their respective energies. Under isobaric conditions, enthalpy landscapes can be used to account for volumetric changes of the system. Understanding the energy or enthalpy landscape holds the key for discovering materials with targeted properties, since the landscape encapsulates the complete thermodynamic and kinetic behavior of a system, including relaxation, metastable phases, and reactivity. However, the curse of dimensionality prohibits one from enumerating and visualizing the energy landscape—the energy landscape of an N-atom system has 3N dimensions. Here, we outline the emerging computational techniques that allow the exploration of complex energy landscapes of materials in three distinct categories: the classical, metaheuristic, and machine learning approaches. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with each of these methods, with a focus on the nature of problems where they can provide excellent solutions (and vice versa). Altogether, in addition to giving an overview of existing approaches, we hope the review provides an impetus to develop novel methods to explore the energy landscapes that can, in turn, provide both a fundamental understanding of the physics of materials and accelerate the discovery of novel materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.25","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139958093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lu Liu, Mingjia Yao, Yuxiang Wang, Yeqing Jin, Jialin Ji, Huifang Luo, Yan Cao, Yifei Xiong, Ye Sheng, Xin Li, Di Qiu, Lili Xi, Jinyang Xi, Wenqing Zhang, Lidong Chen, Jiong Yang
{"title":"The MatHub-3d first-principles repository and the applications on thermoelectrics","authors":"Lu Liu, Mingjia Yao, Yuxiang Wang, Yeqing Jin, Jialin Ji, Huifang Luo, Yan Cao, Yifei Xiong, Ye Sheng, Xin Li, Di Qiu, Lili Xi, Jinyang Xi, Wenqing Zhang, Lidong Chen, Jiong Yang","doi":"10.1002/mgea.21","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.21","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Following the Materials Genome Initiative project, materials research has embarked a new research paradigm centered around material repositories, significantly accelerating the discovery of novel materials, such as thermoelectrics. Thermoelectric materials, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, are garnering increasing attention in applications like waste heat recovery and refrigeration. To facilitate research in this emerging paradigm, we have established the Materials Hub with Three-Dimensional Structures (MatHub-3d) repository, which serves as the foundation for high-throughput (HTP) calculations, property analysis, and the design of thermoelectric materials. In this review, we summarize recent advancements in thermoelectric materials powered by the MatHub-3d, specifically HTP calculations of transport properties and material design on key factors. For HTP calculations, we develop the electrical transport package for HTP purpose, and utilize it for materials screening. In some works, we investigate the relationship between transport properties and chemical bonds for particular types of thermoelectric compounds based on HTP results, enhancing the fundamental understanding about interested compounds. In our work associated with material design, we primarily utilize key factors beyond transport properties to further expedite materials screening and speedily identify specific materials for further theoretical/experimental analyses. Finally, we discuss the future developments of the MatHub-3d and the evolving directions of database-driven thermoelectric research.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.21","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139602191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhihao Yang, Junsheng Wang, Chi Zhang, Shuo Wang, Chengpeng Xue, Guangyuan Tian, Hui Su, Chengming Yan, Zhifei Yan, Yingchun Tian
{"title":"First-principle screening of corrosion resistant solutes (Al, Zn, Y, Ce, and Mn) in Mg alloys for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering guided stainless Mg design","authors":"Zhihao Yang, Junsheng Wang, Chi Zhang, Shuo Wang, Chengpeng Xue, Guangyuan Tian, Hui Su, Chengming Yan, Zhifei Yan, Yingchun Tian","doi":"10.1002/mgea.22","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.22","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mg alloy suffers from its poor corrosion resistance as a result of anodic dissolution of Mg and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in humid environments. In this study, the effects of alloying elements (Al, Zn, Y, Ce, and Mn) on both processes in Mg alloys have been quantitatively predicted. Using first-principle calculations, we first obtained the substitution energies of alloying elements to compare their segregation preference, and then analyzed the influence of solutes at different layers on the stability and hydrogen adsorption properties of Mg(0001) surface by calculating the formation enthalpy, surface energy, vacancy formation energy, work function, Bader charge, deformation charge density, and adsorption free energy of H atom. It has been found that, on the one hand, the interior Mn solute atoms reduce the dissolution of Mg atoms and the transfer of electrons, consequently slowing down the anodic dissolution process. On another hand, the Mn, Y, and Ce elements on the surface inhibit the cathodic HER process by elevating the absolute value of hydrogen adsorption free energy, as a result of those solutes effectively controlling H adsorption behavior on Mg(0001) surface. In contrast, all five elements dissolved inside the Mg grain do not show significant effects on the H adsorption behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.22","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139598703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to work together for engineering materials!","authors":"Shuichi Iwata","doi":"10.1002/mgea.18","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.18","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To share and utilize data effectively for collaborative work, a common understanding of the knowledge behind the data, including its context and meaning, is a fundamental requirement. This paper focuses on the gaps that hinder common understanding between the real world and the data space, acting as barriers between systems, organizations, data spaces, and disciplines. To understand the core reasons and devise strategies for bridging the gap, the author has endeavored to synthesize a case study of material data activities from two perspectives: diachronic and synchronic, which is framed into a two-step process, involving the establishment of intersubjectivity among experts and interobjectivity among materials/substances data. As a result, the author has formulated an action plan for the digitization of engineering materials, encompassing tacit knowledge, know-how, and intellectual property rights to establish a foundation for their use with traceability, interoperability, and reusability. In order to create a conceptual framework that enhances a productive ecosystem facilitated by networked materials and substance databases, this plan is conclusively based on two key steps: fostering interactions among experts rooted in substances and materials and standardizing digitized data related to substances/materials based on their geospatial structural information.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138966441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects of materials genome engineering frontiers","authors":"Jianxin Xie","doi":"10.1002/mgea.17","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.17","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Materials genome engineering represents the new frontier of materials research, and is disrupting the conventional “trial and error” paradigm for materials innovation. In the present perspective, the author reflects on the major achievements already made in five sub-domains, including high-efficiency materials computation and design, revolutionary experimental technologies, materials big data technologies, research and development of advanced materials, and industrial applications. Furthermore, the author lays out five crucial directions of future efforts for maturing the relevant technologies. These directions include cross-scale modeling and computational design, artificial intelligence for materials science, automatic and intelligent experimentation, digital twin, and data resource management and sharing.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-throughput experimental techniques for corrosion research: A review","authors":"Chenhao Ren, Lingwei Ma, Dawei Zhang, Xiaogang Li, Arjan Mol","doi":"10.1002/mgea.20","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.20","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-throughput experimental techniques can accelerate and economize corrosion evaluation, and thus, have great potential in the development of new materials for corrosion protection such as corrosion-resistant metals, corrosion inhibitors, and anticorrosion coatings. This concise review highlights high-throughput experimental techniques that have been recently applied for corrosion research, including (i) the high-throughput preparation of metal samples in the form of thin films or bulk materials, (ii) high-throughput experiments based on corrosive solutions with independent or gradient parameters, (iii) high-throughput evaluation of changes in physicochemical properties, and (iv) high-throughput corrosion evaluation by electrochemical methods. To advance automated and intelligent corrosion research, future directions for the development of the high-throughput corrosion experimental and characterization techniques are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.20","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3D characterization of abnormal grain growth in nanocrystalline nickel","authors":"Wanquan Zhu, Xiaobing Huang, Wei Cai, Tianlin Huang, Guilin Wu, Xiaoxu Huang","doi":"10.1002/mgea.19","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.19","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abnormal grain growth, a pervasive phenomenon witnessed during the annealing of nanocrystalline metals, precipitates a swift diminution of the distinctive properties inherent to such materials. Historically, conventional transmission electron microscopy has struggled to efficiently procure comprehensive five-parameter crystallographic information from a substantial number of grain boundaries in nanocrystalline metals, thus inhibiting a deeper understanding of abnormal grain growth behavior within nanocrystalline materials. In this study, we utilize a high-throughput characterization method—three-dimensional orientation mapping in the TEM (3D-OMiTEM) to characterize the crystallographic five-parameter character of grain boundaries with an area of over 3.4 × 10<sup>6</sup> nm<sup>2</sup> in an abnormally grown nanocrystalline nickel sample. When coupled with existing theoretical simulation results, it is discerned that the grain boundary population shows a relatively large scatter when it is correlated to the calculated grain boundary energy; the grain boundaries of abnormally grown grains exhibit lower grain boundary energy compared to those that have not undergone abnormal growth. Merging high-throughput grain boundary information obtained from three-dimensional orientation mapping data with grain boundary properties derived from high-throughput theoretical calculations following the concept of materials genome engineering will undoubtedly facilitate further advancements in comprehending and discerning the interfacial behaviors of crystalline materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138590066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ab initio artificial intelligence: Future research of Materials Genome Initiative","authors":"He Li, Yong Xu, Wenhui Duan","doi":"10.1002/mgea.16","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mgea.16","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The marriage of artificial intelligence (AI) and Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) could profoundly change the landscape of modern materials research, leading to a new paradigm of data-driven and AI-driven materials discovery. In this perspective, we will give an overview on the central role of AI in the MGI research. In particular, an emerging research field of ab initio AI, which applies state-of-the-art AI techniques to help solve bottleneck problems of ab initio computation, will be introduced. The development of ab initio AI will greatly accelerate high-throughput computation, promote the construction of large materials database, and open new opportunities for future research of MGI.</p>","PeriodicalId":100889,"journal":{"name":"Materials Genome Engineering Advances","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mgea.16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}