2022-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS2022 Volume 9 Mizutani Intl. Symp. Science of Intelligent & Advanced Materials (SISAM) and Quasi-crystals

Editors:F. Kongoli, J. Dubois, E. Gaudry, T. Homma, V. Fournee
Publisher:Flogen Star OUTREACH
Publication Year:2022
Pages:116 pages
ISBN:978-1-989820-50-6(CD)
ISSN:2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series)
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    Alloy design based on first-principles calculations from deductive to inductive approach

    Ryoji Asahi1;
    1NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan;
    Type of Paper: Invited
    Id Paper: 414
    Topic: 42

    Abstract:

    The first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) have succeeded in a broad range of systems thanks to accurate description of electronic structure and their transferability. Here we present some studies on alloys using the first-principles calculations to understand deductively mechanism of properties such as stability and superelasticity. Regarding the stability of the gamma-phase alloys, the Hume-Rother electron concentration rule was revisited in terms of the first-principles calculations. The detailed analysis elucidates an interaction between the Fermi surface and the Brillouin zone that results in pseudogap formation and stability of the system with a certain electron density [1]. The electron density also plays a significant role in Ti-Nb-Ta-Zr-O alloys called “gum metal” which shows high strength, low Young's modulus and high elastic deformability, simultaneously. These unusual properties can be understood by softening with a particular electron concentration and Zr-O nano-clusters to be obstacles for dislocation movement [2].
    Despite great success of the first-principles approach, it often faces at computationally-accessible simulation size typically within 1000 atoms and 100 ps. In recent year, machine learning potential (MLP) approach has been developed. Here the use of the first-principles calculations is extremely effective for data generation to construct MLP inductively. We demonstrate the design of RhAu alloy nanoparticles for NO decomposition catalysis using machine-learning approach [3]. A local similarity kernel based on the local atomic configuration is employed as descriptors which allow interrogation of catalytic activities. With data of the first-principles calculations on single crystals and their surfaces, MLP provides size- and composition-dependent catalytic activities of the nanoparticles.

    Keywords:

    Computational simulation; Electronic structures; machine learning

    References:

    [1] Asahi, Sato, Takeuchi, Mizutani, Phys. Rev. B 71, 165103 (2005).
    [2] Nagasako, Asahi, Isheim, Seidman, Kuramoto, Furuta, Acta Mater. 105, 347 (2016).
    [3] Jinnouchi, Asahi, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 4279 (2017).

    Cite this article as:

    Asahi R. (2022). Alloy design based on first-principles calculations from deductive to inductive approach. In F. Kongoli, J. Dubois, E. Gaudry, T. Homma, V. Fournee (Eds.), Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS2022 Volume 9 Mizutani Intl. Symp. Science of Intelligent & Advanced Materials (SISAM) and Quasi-crystals (pp. 77-78). Montreal, Canada: FLOGEN Star Outreach