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Workshop: AI for Accelerated Materials Design (AI4Mat)
DeepStruc: Towards structure solution from pair distribution function data using deep generative models
Emil Thyge Skaaning Kjær · Andy S. Anker · Marcus Weng · Simon J. L. Billinge · Raghavendra Selvan · Kirsten Jensen
Keywords: [ Conditional Variational Autoencoder ] [ Nanoparticle characterization ] [ X-ray scattering ] [ Materials Chemistry ] [ Pair Distribution Function ]
Structure solution of nanostructured materials that have limited long-range order remains a bottleneck in materials development. We present a deep learning algorithm, DeepStruc, that can solve a simple nanoparticle structure directly from a Pair Distribution Function (PDF) obtained from total scattering data by using a conditional variational autoencoder. We first apply DeepStruc to PDFs from seven different structure types of monometallic nanoparticles, and show that structures can be solved from both simulated and experimental PDFs, including PDFs from nanoparticles that are not present in the training distribution. We also apply DeepStruc to a system of hcp, fcc and stacking faulted nanoparticles, where DeepStruc recognizes stacking faulted nanoparticles as an interpolation between hcp and fcc nanoparticles and is able to solve stacking faulted structures from PDFs. Our findings suggests that DeepStruc is a step towards a general approach for structure solution of nanomaterials.