Identification of potential solid-state Li-ion conductors with semi-supervised learning
Abstract
Despite ongoing efforts to identify high-performance electrolytes for solid-state Li-ion batteries, thousands of prospective Li-containing structures remain unexplored. Here, we employ a semi-supervised learning approach to expedite identification of ionic conductors. We screen 180 unique descriptor representations and use agglomerative clustering to cluster ~26,000 Li-containing structures. The clusters are then labeled with experimental ionic conductivity data to assess the fitness of the descriptors. By inspecting clusters containing the highest conductivity labels, we identify 212 promising structures that are further screened using bond valence site energy and nudged elastic band calculations. Li₃BS₃ is identified as a potential high-conductivity material and selected for experimental characterization. With sufficient defect engineering, we show that Li₃BS₃ is a superionic conductor with room temperature ionic conductivity greater than 1 mS cm⁻¹. While the semi-supervised method shows promise for identification of superionic conductors, the results illustrate a continued need for descriptors that explicitly encode for defects.
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© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2023.
F. A. L. L. acknowledges the support of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation via a 2020 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences. F. A. L. L. would also like to thank Andrew J. Martinolich for his guidance and insightful scientific input. The NEB computations presented here were conducted in the Resnick High Performance Computing Center, a facility supported by Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology. K. A. S. acknowledges support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Data availability. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. There are no conflicts to declare.
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- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
- Resnick Sustainability Institute
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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- Resnick Sustainability Institute