Beyond scaling relations for the description of catalytic materials

Abstract

Computational screening for new and improved catalyst materials relies on accurate and low-cost predictions of key parameters such as adsorption energies. Here, we use recently developed compressed sensing methods to identify descriptors whose predictive power extends over a wide range of adsorbates, multi-metallic transition metal surfaces and facets. The descriptors are expressed as non-linear functions of intrinsic properties of the clean catalyst surface, e.g. coordination numbers, d-band moments and density of states at the Fermi level. From a single density-functional theory calculation of these properties, we predict adsorption energies at all potential surface sites, and thereby also the most stable geometry. Compared to previous approaches such as scaling relations, we find our approach to be both more general and more accurate for the prediction of adsorption energies on alloys with mixed-metal surfaces, already when based on training data including only pure metals. This accuracy can be systematically improved by adding also alloy adsorption energies to the training data.

This document is the unedited Author's version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in ACS Catalysis, copyright American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.8b04478

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