A machine learning method is developed and used to predict the adsorption configurations and energies of complex molecules at the surfaces of transition metals and alloys. This method will be useful for investigating complex reaction networks at complex catalyst materials to understand and improve the performance of heterogeneous catalysts.
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This is a summary of: Xu, W. et al. Predicting binding motifs of complex adsorbates using machine learning with a physics-inspired graph representation. Nat. Comput. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00280-7 (2022).
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Machine learning reveals how complex molecules bind to catalyst surfaces. Nat Comput Sci 2, 477–478 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00287-0
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