About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2027 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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AI/ML/Data Informatics for Materials Discovery: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Modeling
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| Presentation Title |
Fine–Tuned Universal Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for Surface Property Prediction
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| Author(s) |
Kellyna Kayla Voyer, Sam Dong, Richard Hennig |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Kellyna Kayla Voyer |
| Abstract Scope |
Machine-learned interatomic potentials like MatterSim offer DFT-level accuracy at a fraction of the cost, but bulk-only training limits transferability to surfaces, where broken periodicity and under-coordinated atoms govern reactivity, corrosion resistance, and superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavity performance. We fine-tune MatterSim on the Open Catalyst 2020 S2EF-2M dataset — 100,000 DFT slab frames spanning 55 elements with explicit vacuum, adsorbates, and non-equilibrium forces. Joint energy–force training yields a surface-aware model with energy MAE of 187 meV/atom (R² = 0.983) and force MAE of 72 meV/Å (R² = 0.90), compared to 418 meV/atom (R² = 0.947) for the unmodified baseline. The fine-tuned model is applied to high-throughput screening of Nb-oxide capping alloy compositions (Ag–Pd, Ag–Pt, Au–Pd, Au–Pt) across 1,313 surface structures, identifying thermodynamically favorable candidates for SRF cavity protection and demonstrating a scalable route from bulk foundation models to accurate surface-property prediction. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Machine Learning, Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Other |