Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Unsupervised discovery of solid-state lithium ion conductors

  • Ying Zhang,
  • Xingfeng He,
  • Zhiqian Chen,
  • Qiang Bai,
  • Adelaide M. Nolan,
  • Charles A. Roberts,
  • Debasish Banerjee,
  • Tomoya Matsunaga,
  • Yifei Mo,
  • Chen Ling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13214-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Predictions of new solid-state Li-ion conductors are challenging due to the diverse chemistries and compositions involved. Here the authors combine unsupervised learning techniques and molecular dynamics simulations to discover new compounds with high Li-ion conductivity.