1. Scoping the polymer genome: A roadmap for rational polymer dielectrics design and beyond
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Venkatesh Botu, Chiho Kim, Ghanshyam Pilania, Tran Doan Huan, Anand Chandrasekaran, Rampi Ramprasad, and Arun Mannodi-Kanakkithodi
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,Polymer dielectric ,Human dna ,Computer science ,Test data generation ,Mechanical Engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Polymer ,Materials design ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,0104 chemical sciences ,Characterization (materials science) ,chemistry ,Mechanics of Materials ,Capacitive energy storage ,Systems engineering ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) has heralded a sea change in the philosophy of materials design. In an increasing number of applications, the successful deployment of novel materials has benefited from the use of computational methodologies, data descriptors, and machine learning. Polymers have long suffered from a lack of data on electronic, mechanical, and dielectric properties across large chemical spaces, causing a stagnation in the set of suitable candidates for various applications. Extensive efforts over the last few years have seen the fruitful application of MGI principles toward the accelerated discovery of attractive polymer dielectrics for capacitive energy storage. Here, we review these efforts, highlighting the importance of computational data generation and screening, targeted synthesis and characterization, polymer fingerprinting and machine-learning prediction models, and the creation of an online knowledgebase to guide ongoing and future polymer discovery and design. We lay special emphasis on the fingerprinting of polymers in terms of their genome or constituent atomic and molecular fragments, an idea that pays homage to the pioneers of the human genome project who identified the basic building blocks of the human DNA. By scoping the polymer genome, we present an essential roadmap for the design of polymer dielectrics, and provide future perspectives and directions for expansions to other polymer subclasses and properties.
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- 2018
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