Integration of Computation and Experiment for Accelerated Materials Discovery

计算与实验相结合，加速材料发现

• 批准号: EP/N004884/1
• 负责人: Matthew Rosseinsky
• 金额: $ 847.42万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN004884%2F1
• 关键词: Integration; Computation; Experiment; Accelerated; Materials

Society faces major challenges that require disruptive new materials solutions. For example, there is a worldwide demand for materials for sustainable energy applications, such as safer new battery technologies or the efficient capture and utilization of solar energy. This project will develop an integrated approach to designing, synthesizing and evaluating new functional materials, which will be developed across organic and inorganic solids, and also hybrids that contain both organic and inorganic modules in a single solid.The UK is well placed to boost its knowledge economy by discovering breakthrough functional materials, but there is intense global completion. Success, and long-term competitiveness, is critically dependent on developing improved capability to create such materials. All technologically advanced nations have programmes that address this challenge, exemplified by the $100 million of initial funding for the US Materials Genome Initiative.The traditional approach to building functional materials, where the properties arise from the placement of the atoms, can be contrasted with large-scale engineering. In engineering, the underpinning Newtonian physics is understood to the point that complex structures, such as bridges, can be constructed with millimetre precision. By contrast, the engineering of functional materials relies on a much less perfect understanding of the relationship between structure and function at the atomic level, and a still limited capability to achieve atomic level precision in synthesis. Hence, the failure rate in new materials synthesis is enormous compared with large-scale engineering, and this requires large numbers of researchers to drive success, placing the UK at a competitive disadvantage compared to larger countries. The current difficulty of materials design at the atomic level also leads to cultural barriers: in building a bridge, the design team would work closely with the engineering construction team throughout the process. By contrast, the direct, day-to-day integration of theory and synthesis to identify new materials is not common practice, despite impressive advances in the ability of computation to tackle more complex systems. This is a fundamental challenge in materials research.This Programme Grant will tackle the challenge by delivering the daily working-level integration of computation and experiment to discover new materials, driven by a closely interacting team of specialists in structure and property prediction, measurement and materials synthesis. Key to this will be unique methods developed by our team that led to recent landmark publications in Science and Nature. We are therefore internationally well placed to deliver this timely vision.Our approach will enable discovery of functional materials on a much faster timescale. It will have broad scope, because we will develop it across materials types with a range of targeted properties. It will have disruptive impact because it uses chemical understanding and experiment in tandem with calculations that directly exploit chemical knowledge. In the longer term, the approach will enable a wide range of academic and industrial communities in chemistry and also in physics and engineering, where there is often a keener understanding of the properties required for applications, to design better materials. This approach will lead to new materials, such as battery electrolytes, materials for information storage, and photocatalysts for solar energy conversion, that are important societal and commercial targets in their own right.We will exploit discoveries and share the approach with our commercial partners via the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry and the new Materials Innovation Factory, a £68 million UK capital investment in state-of-the-art materials research facilities for both academic and industrial users. Industry and the Universities commit 55% of the project cost.

社会面临重大挑战，需要颠覆性的新材料解决方案。例如，全世界对用于可持续能源应用的材料有需求，例如更安全的新电池技术或有效地捕获和利用太阳能。该项目将开发一种综合的方法来设计、合成和评估新的功能材料，这种材料将在有机和无机固体以及在单一固体中同时包含有机和无机模块的混合材料中开发。英国处于有利地位，通过发现突破性功能材料来促进其知识经济，但在全球范围内完成了大量工作。成功，以及长期的竞争力，关键取决于开发出更好的制造此类材料的能力。所有技术先进的国家都有应对这一挑战的计划，美国材料基因组计划的1亿美元初始资金就是一个例子。传统的建造功能材料的方法，其性质来自原子的放置，可以与大规模工程形成对比。在工程上，人们对支撑牛顿物理学的理解是，复杂的结构，如桥梁，可以以毫米级的精度建造。相比之下，功能材料的工程依赖于在原子水平上对结构和功能之间的关系的不那么完美的理解，以及在合成中实现原子水平精度的能力仍然有限。因此，与大规模工程相比，新材料合成的失败率是巨大的，这需要大量的研究人员来推动成功，使英国与较大的国家相比处于竞争劣势。目前原子层面的材料设计困难也导致了文化障碍：在建造桥梁时，设计团队将在整个过程中与工程施工团队密切合作。相比之下，尽管在处理更复杂系统的计算能力方面取得了令人印象深刻的进展，但将理论和合成直接、日常地整合以识别新材料的做法并不常见。这是材料研究中的一项基本挑战。这项计划拨款将通过提供日常工作层面的计算和实验一体化来发现新材料，由结构和性能预测、测量和材料合成方面密切互动的专家团队推动，以应对这一挑战。关键将是我们团队开发的独特方法，这些方法导致了最近在《科学》和《自然》杂志上发表的里程碑式的文章。因此，我们在国际上处于有利地位，能够提供这一及时的愿景。我们的方法将使功能材料的发现时间更短。它将具有广泛的范围，因为我们将在具有一系列目标特性的材料类型中开发它。它将产生颠覆性的影响，因为它使用化学理解和实验，并结合直接利用化学知识的计算。从长远来看，这种方法将使化学以及物理和工程领域的广泛学术和工业界能够设计出更好的材料，因为在这些领域，人们往往对应用所需的性质有了更深入的了解。这种方法将导致新材料，如电池电解液，用于信息存储的材料，以及用于太阳能转换的光催化剂，它们本身就是重要的社会和商业目标。我们将通过材料化学知识中心和新材料创新工厂与我们的商业合作伙伴分享这种方法，新材料创新工厂是一项6800万英镑的英国资本投资，用于学术和工业用户的最先进材料研究设施。产业界和大学承担了项目成本的55%。

项目成果

Inducing Social Self-Sorting in Organic Cages To Tune The Shape of The Internal Cavity.

• DOI: 10.1002/anie.202007571
• 发表时间: 2020-09-14
• 期刊: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
• 作者: Abet V;Szczypiński FT;Little MA;Santolini V;Jones CD;Evans R;Wilson C;Wu X;Thorne MF;Bennison MJ;Cui P;Cooper AI;Jelfs KE;Slater AG
• 通讯作者: Slater AG

Photocatalytic proton reduction by a computationally identified, molecular hydrogen-bonded framework

• DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.11341850.v1
• 发表时间: 2019-12
• 期刊: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
• 影响因子: 11.9
• 作者: Catherine M. Aitchison;Christopher M. Kane;D. McMahon;Peter R. Spackman;A. Pulido;Xiaoyan Wang;L. Wilbr

Complex Phase Behaviour and Structural Transformations of Metal-Organic Frameworks with Mixed Rigid and Flexible Bridging Ligands.

• DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805028
• 发表时间: 2018-12
• 期刊: Chemistry
• 作者: H. D. Arkawazi;Rob Clowes;A. Cooper;T. Konno;Naoto Kuwamura;C. Pask;M. Hardie

Photocatalytic overall water splitting under visible light enabled by a particulate conjugated polymer loaded with iridium

由负载铱的颗粒共轭聚合物实现可见光下光催化整体水分解

• DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-8vr18
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Bai Y

Emulsion polymerization derived organic photocatalysts for improved light-driven hydrogen evolution

• DOI: 10.1039/c8ta11383a
• 发表时间: 2019-02-14
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
• 影响因子: 11.9
• 作者: Aitchison, Catherine M.;Sprick, Reiner Sebastian;Cooper, Andrew I.
• 通讯作者: Cooper, Andrew I.