Determining the structure of functionalized graphene for tailored thermomechanical properties using ML techniques

RSC Advances, 2025

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DOI 10.1039/d5ra07646c
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Abstract

> 0.9 for thermal conductivity, Young's modulus and maximum stress) on a hold-out test set, with mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) remaining below 1% in most cases. Finally, an evolutionary optimization process, in tandem with the trained Machine Learning (ML) models, was employed for finding graphene layouts that possess a set of user-defined target properties. MD-validations of the obtained designs confirmed the applicability of the approach while revealing acceptable deviations for thermal conductivity values and even better alignment for the mechanical properties. In summary, the proposed approach succeeds in a 7 orders of magnitude speedup in estimating the thermomechanical properties of functionalized graphene sheets when compared to pure MD simulations, and up to 6 orders of magnitude faster identification of layouts with prescribed properties, benchmarked on a nanosheet (220 × 100 Å) with 8528 atoms using a 64 core AMD EPYC workstation.