Unified machine learning protocol for copolymer structure-property predictions.

Journal: STAR protocols
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Abstract

Structure-property relationships are extremely valuable when predicting the properties of polymers. This protocol demonstrates a step-by-step approach, based on multiple machine learning (ML) architectures, which is capable of processing copolymer types such as alternating, random, block, and gradient copolymers. We detail steps for necessary software installation and construction of datasets. We further describe training and optimization steps for four neural network models and subsequent model visualization and comparison using training and test values. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Tao et al. (2022)..

Authors

  • Lei Tao
    National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, 100050, China.
  • Tom Arbaugh
    Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA.
  • John Byrnes
    SRI International, San Diego, CA 92131, USA.
  • Vikas Varshney
    Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH 45433, USA.
  • Ying Li
    School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710010, China.