Machine learned Force-Fields for an ab-initio Quality Description of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an incredibly diverse group of highly porous hybrid materials, which are interesting for a wide range of possible applications. For a reliable description of many of their properties accurate computationally highly efficient methods, like force-field potentials (FFPs), are required. With the advent of machine learning approaches, it is now possible to generate such potentials with relatively little human effort. Here, we present a recipe to parametrize two fundamentally different types of exceptionally accurate and computationally highly efficient machine learned potentials, which belong to the moment-tensor and kernel-based potential families. They are parametrized relying on reference configurations generated in the course of molecular dynamics based, active learning runs and their performance is benchmarked for a representative selection of commonly studied MOFs. For both potentials, comparison to a random set of validation structures reveals close to DFT precision in predicted forces and structural parameters of all MOFs. Essentially the same applies to elastic constants and phonon band structures. Additionally, for MOF-5 the thermal conductivity is obtained with full quantitative agreement to single-crystal experiments. All this is possible while maintaining a high degree of computational efficiency, with the obtained machine learned potentials being only moderately slower than the extremely simple UFF4MOF or Dreiding force fields. The exceptional accuracy of the presented FFPs combined with their computational efficiency has the potential of lifting the computational modelling of MOFs to the next level.

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