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Published on: October 6, 2023
Coarse-grained versus fully atomistic machine learning for zeolitic imidazolate frameworks
Zoé Faure Beaulieu1, Thomas C Nicholas1, John L A Gardner1
1Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK. andrew.goodwin@chem.ox.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks are widely thought of as being analogous to inorganic AB2 phases. We test the validity of this assumption by comparing simplified and fully atomistic machine-learning models for local environments in ZIFs. Our work addresses the central question to what extent chemical information can be "coarse-grained" in hybrid framework materials.
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