Abstract
Porous carbons with different textural properties exhibit great differences in CO2 adsorption capacity. It is generally known that narrow micropores contribute to higher CO2 adsorption capacity. However, it is still unclear what role each variable in the textural properties plays in CO2 adsorption. Herein, a deep neural network is trained as a generative model to direct the relationship between CO2 adsorption of porous carbons and corresponding textural properties. The trained neural network is further employed as an implicit model to estimate its ability to predict the CO2 adsorption capacity of unknown porous carbons. Interestingly, the practical CO2 adsorption amounts are in good agreement with predicted values using surface area, micropore and mesopore volumes as the input values simultaneously. This unprecedented deep learning neural network (DNN) approach, a type of machine learning algorithm, exhibits great potential to predict gas adsorption and guide the development of next-generation carbons.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 259-263 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2 2019 |
Funding
This work was supported by the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy. J.F. was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21436007, 21676243, 21706228), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LR17B060002). Z.Z. thanks the China Scholarship Council for financial support as a joint PhD student.
Keywords
- CO adsorption
- machine learning
- porous carbon
- textural properties