At nano tech 2023, PFCC’s Rabi Shibata gave a special lecture on materials informatics.
[Lecture summary]
The growing interest in materials informatics (MI) has recently pushed Japanese companies into launching various MI projects, some of which have made successful achievements. At the same time, however, the resulting influx of MI-related information has caused confusion among those who are willing to get into MI.
In this lecture, PFCC’s Rabi Shibata gave an overview of the current MI landscape and where PFCC’s universal atomistic simulator Matlantis plays it’s role in the industry. He also introduced his own case study to illustrate what motivates materials scientists to take up MI.
https://matlantis.com/
3. What I want to tell you in advance
Points of concern in this lecture
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1. No deep technical contents
2. Focus on clarity
3. I would be happy to hear your reactions !
4. What I aim to achieve through this lecture
Understanding the outline of Materials Informatics
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Before After
Researchers who want to start
Materials Informatics
Understanding the outline of
Materials Informatics
5. What I felt during my time as a R&D member
I want to realize the world where technology
can contribute a little more to business.
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Impact on decision making in corporate activities
Customer, Competitor, Company Technology
Current
Ideal
6. Materials Informatics:News
The amazing case of MIT-Samsung(2015)
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https://www.itmedia.co.jp/smartjapan/articles/1508/21/news038.html
・Development of all solid-state lithium-ion battery
・Developed in about 1 year by Materials Informatics
・Japanese company took 5 years to develop
hope
wish anxiety
R&D can be changed by
Materials Informatics
8. Outline of Materials Informatics
To promote materials development by utilizing information processing technology
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9. Materials Informatics:Issue ①
① Do you have enough original data?
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10. Materials Informatics:Issue ②
② Is the model accurate enough?
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・ Lack of Data Science skill
・Lack of knowledge on
Material development
・Ambiguous problem setting
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11. Materials Informatics:Issue ③
③ Is the model's coverage sufficient?
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・ less amount of data
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・ Difficulty in data shaping
・ Limited range of reliable prediction
・ Failure to meet R&D expectations
・ Searching for databases
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12. What causes these issues in Material Informatics
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・Experiment data
・Literature data
・Database etc.
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This approach is based on the condition
that we have enough amount & quality of original data.
Original data (train data) Data to be predicted (test data)
13. Continuation of activities with perseverance in the face of challenges.
As a result, the number of related cases/news is increasing.
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Showa Denko reduced number of experiments
in Materials Development by 25% with AI Prediction(2020)
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO58115270W0A410C2000000/
Reduce the number
of experiment
Materials Informatics:Current Efforts ①
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600 of MI expert person will be trained in Asahikase(2021)
https://xtech.nikkei.com/atcl/nxt/column/18/00001/06113/
In-house
education of MI
Materials Informatics:Current Efforts ②
Continuation of activities with perseverance in the face of challenges.
As a result, the number of related cases/news is increasing.
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Sumitomo Rubber accelerates material development with Toyota's MI Service(2022)
https://monoist.itmedia.co.jp/mn/articles/2204/14/news045_2.html
Success with
comercial MI
service
Materials Informatics:Current Efforts ③
Continuation of activities with perseverance in the face of challenges.
As a result, the number of related cases/news is increasing.
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Collecting
data
Shaping
data
Modeling Prediction Evaluation
Issue ①enough data? ②accuracy? ③reliable range?
In-house
External
services
education
system
education
tool
analysis
advisery
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Investigation by PFCC Shibata (Dec, 2022)
Continuation of activities with perseverance in the face of challenges.
As a result, the number of related cases/news is increasing.
Outline of Materials Informatics
In Japan
17. What causes these issues in Material Informatics
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・Experiment data
・Literature data
・Database etc.
already known already known
predict unknown y
The approach is to have the original data
and make predictions based on that data
Original data (train data) Data to be predicted (test data)
18. Materials Informatics:Another Point of View
Use of Simulation
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Human Computer※
Inductive
approach
experimental
science
theoretical
science
machine learning
(~P.17)
Simulation
No need to collect
the original data
※ Actually, human have to collaborate with computer.
In addition, machine learning and simulation
is often combined.
Deductive
approach
20. Company Name
Established June 1, 2021
Address 3rd fl. Otemachi Bldg., 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Representative Daisuke Okanohara (CEO)
Mission “To accelerate materials discovery for a sustainable future. ”
Product Matlantis™: High-speed universal atomistic simulator
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About Us
The largest petroleum company.
https://www.eneos.co.jp/english/
Japan’s AI technology leader.
https://www.preferred.jp/en/
Confidential
21. Our strong point
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Core technology of our service has been adopted by nature communications.
URL:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30687-9
23. Basic features of Matlantis ①
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Matlantis is a simulator that rapidly calculates energy and force with atomic structure.
y = f(X)
physical properties
and phenomena
Search for Material
by simulation
Search for Material
by simulation
24. Basic features of Matlantis ②
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Various physical properties and phenomena can be simulated.
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Provided as a cloud service(JupyterLab)
Basic features of Matlantis ③
26. Strong points of Matlantis ①
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Condition of first-principles calculations
・solver = QUANTUM ESPRESSO (PWscf)
・ver:6.4.1
・PP:Pt.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
・Ecutoff:40 Ry (≒544 eV)
・Xeon Gold 6254 3.1GHz x 2 (36 cores)
・RAM:384 GB
Blazingly faster than conventional DFT calculations
28. How to realize this simulation (Matlantis)
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…
Energy
calculated
by
Matlantis
Energy calculated by DFT
More than 20M of DFT simulations for
various molecular/crystal structures
Unique & versatile Graph Neural Network
model (PFP) built by Preferred Networks
Iterative model training for accurate data
prediction
Training data GNN Machine Learning
The greatest model is established by enormous amount of data and our know-how.
29. Achievements in Material Themes
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We have case-studies in material themes related to our mission.
Catalyst Battery Smiconductor Alloy
Lubricant Ceramics Adsorbent Process
31. Relationship between Materials Informatics & Matlantis
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Summary of this lecture so far
Planing
Basic
Research
Product
Development
Scale up Production
Deductive approach Inductive approach
Often spoken of in the
context of Materials Informatics
Human Computer
Inductive
approach
experimental
science
theoretical
science
machine learning
Simulation
Deductive
approach
32. If I came back to the research for materials science
I would want to develop material products with experiment.
9:00
Start to work
Team MTG
10:00
Experiment
12:00 Lunch
13:00 MTG
14:00
Experiment
Analysis
17:00
18:00
Routine tasks
Leave office
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33. 9:00
10:00
12:00
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14:00
17:00
18:00
Update the way of research by DX for R&D and work-style reform
Target
MTG
Routine tasks
Experiment
Data analysis
Approach
・Auto-experiment
・DoE
・Electronic notebook
・Machine learning
・Cut waste
・Mind-change
DX
for R&D
work-style
reform
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If I came back to the research for materials science
Start to work
Team MTG
Experiment
Lunch
MTG
Experiment
Analysis
Routine tasks
Leave office
34. Continue to bring up the spirit of enjoyment with simulation
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17:00 Set Simulation
18:00 Original motivation for computational chemistry
:We want to try out ideas safely
spirit of
enjoyment
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Target
MTG
Routine tasks
Experiment
Data analysis
Approach
・Auto-experiment
・DoE
・Electronic notebook
・Machine learning
・Cut waste
・Mind-change
DX
for R&D
work-style
reform
Start to work
Team MTG
Experiment
Lunch
MTG
Experiment
Analysis
Routine tasks
Leave office
Planing
Basic
Research
Product
Development
Scale up Production
If I came back to the research for materials science