Characterising the glass transition temperature-structure relationship through a recurrent neural network

Quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) is a powerful analytical method to find correlations between the structure of a molecule and its physicochemical properties. The glass transition temperature (Tg) is one of the most reported properties, and its characterisation is critical for tuni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Borredon, Claudia, Miccio, Luis A., Cerveny, Silvina, Schwartz, Gustavo A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/342175
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/342175
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:QSPR
Machine learning
Molecular glass former
Amino acid
RNN
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Sumario:Quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) is a powerful analytical method to find correlations between the structure of a molecule and its physicochemical properties. The glass transition temperature (Tg) is one of the most reported properties, and its characterisation is critical for tuning the physical properties of materials. In this work, we explore the use of machine learning in the field of QSPR by developing a recurrent neural network (RNN) that relates the chemical structure and the glass transition temperature of molecular glass formers. In addition, we performed a chemical embedding from the last hidden layer of the RNN architecture into an m-dimensional Tg-oriented space. Then, we test the model to predict the glass transition temperature of essential amino acids and peptides. The results are very promising and they can open the door for exploring and designing new materials.