{"id":1119,"date":"2023-06-15T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compbat.eu\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2023-06-15T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:19:43","slug":"last-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compbat.eu\/2023\/06\/15\/last-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Last publications from Aalto University and the\u00a0University of Turku teams"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here you can find one of our last publications, from Aalto University and the University of Turku teams, entitled: “Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning for Electrochemical Square-Scheme Prediction: An Application to Quinone-type Molecules Relevant to Redox Flow Batteries<\/strong><\/em>”<\/p>\n In CompBat we are interested of molecules redox potentials (Ered) but depending the pH or the charge state of the molecule the molecules protonation state can change.<\/p>\n We have developed a machine learning (ML) model to predict Ered and acidity constants (pKa) of a rather large set of molecules. Quantum chemical DFT methods has been used to compute Ered and pKa values of more than 8200 quinone-type organic molecules.<\/p>\n Supervised om Forest Regression model is used to teach the ML method. All studied molecules underwent two-proton and two-electron transfer process. Both structural and chemical descriptors are used.<\/p>\n The HOMO of the reactant and LUMO of the product participating in the oxidation reaction appeared to be inversely associated with Ered. Trained models using a SMILES-based descriptor can efficiently predict the pKa and Ered with a mean absolute error of less than 1 and 66 mV, respectively.<\/p>\n High prediction accuracy of R2 > 0.76 and > 0.90 was also obtained on the external test set for Ered and pKa, respectively. This hybrid DFT-ML study can be applied to speed up the screening of quinone-type molecules for energy storage and other applications.<\/p>\n