Project description
AI-driven materials from process to performance
The discovery of new materials has usually involved continuous experimentation, such as tweaking temperatures, pressures, or solvents and hoping for a breakthrough. The relationships between how a material is made, how it is structured, and how it ultimately performs remain elusive. The EU-funded GEMPROMISE project aims to reverse this trend. Specifically, it will combine high-throughput experiments, advanced simulations and machine learning. It is building a generative closed-loop system that proposes processing conditions and tests them in real time. The goal is to replace trial and error with prediction and to create sustainable synthetic layered silicates with tunable electronic properties for the energy transition and beyond.
Objective
GEMPROMISE aims to tackle the grand challenge of materials science, namely to identify the process parameters leading to a structure with targeted properties and performance. Compared to the current trial-and-error approach, mastering the Process-Structure-Property-Performance (Proc.→Struc.→Prop.→Perf.) relationships would speed up materials discovery with a huge societal impact (e.g. for energy transition). From a fundamental standpoint, there is no theory for these relationships. Thanks to highthroughput (HT) ab initio simulations, Struc.→Prop. (and hence Prop.→Perf.) can be well predicted and machine-learning (ML) approaches have been recently used as much faster surrogate models. But the simulation of the complete Proc.→Struc. is still out of reach, and ML approaches are hindered by the lack of data given the vast amount of possible process paths.
GEMPROMISE will establish a generative active learning approach to suggest process parameters leading to targeted properties, promoting a physical and chemical understanding of Proc.→Struc.→Prop.→Perf., as ultimate goal. Its key ideas emerged in a synergistic brainstorming between AYMONIER (experiments), RIGNANESE (simulations), and VANDERGHEYNST (ML): (i) a multimodal ML model will be developed to leverage experiments and simulations as direct and indirect data providers of varying quantity and quality, integrating these modalities through a joint latent space allowing for generation, (ii) a HT synthesis and characterization platform will be designed to close the loop and respond to the ML model queries, and (iii) a HT simulation framework will be devised for predicting Struc.→Prop. information to complement experiments.
To illustrate the concept, GEMPROMISE will give birth to a bottom-up, sustainable, and scalable method to produce new synthetic layered silicates with controllable band gaps. Once established, this approach can be extended to other processes, structures, properties, and hence applications.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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75794 Paris
France
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