Collaborative Research: DMREF: Data-Driven Prediction of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Structures

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Abstract

Non-technical Description: Hybrid Organic Inorganic Structures (HOIS), specifically in the form of metal-halide perovskites, have recently attracted much attention due to unprecedented performance advancements in solar cells, light emitting diodes, as well as emerging applications in transistors, sensors, spintronics and catalysts. The extremely wide chemical and structural space engendered by hybrid organic-inorganic systems presents both exciting opportunities for property tunability, but also substantial challenges associated with the laborious process of exploring this wide space for suitable structures for a given application. This project aims to strongly accelerate structure prediction within the HOIS space through exploitation of recently curated X-ray structure databases, molecular dynamics simulation, machine learning (ML), synthetic and structural studies in an iterative feedback loop. The research will provide critical insights into composition-structure relationships, including the preferred structural dimensionality, distortions in the inorganic lattice, relative stabilities of different perovskite-like structures, and the underlying molecular features. The outcome will be the rapid prediction of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite-type structures from the starting materials, which is essential to optimize optical, electronic and spin properties for a wide range of applications. Approximately one thousand new HOIS will be explored, more than doubling the range o

Key facts

NSF award ID
2538963
Awardee
Middle Tennessee State University (TN)
SAM.gov UEI
VMWUDBTMF4C9
PI
Hanna Terletska
Primary program
01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
(MGI) Materials Genome Initiative, Materials Data, Materials AI, DMREF, EXP PROG TO STIM COMP RES
Estimated total
$346,684
Funds obligated
$286,822
Transaction type
Continuing Grant
Period
07/01/2025 → 10/31/2027