Atomistic Insights into the Oxidation of Flat and Stepped Platinum Surfaces Using Large-Scale Machine Learning Potential-based Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Understanding catalyst surface structure changes under reactive conditions has become an important topic with the increasing interest in operando measurement and modelling. In this work, we develop a workflow to build machine learning potentials (MLPs) for simulating complicated chemical systems with large spatial and time scales, in which the committee model strategy equips the MLP with uncertainty estimation, enabling active learning protocol. The methods are applied to constructing PtOx MLP based on explored configurations from bulk oxides to amorphous oxidised surfaces, which cover most ordered high-oxygen-coverage platinum surfaces within an accessible energy range. This MLP is used to perform large-scale grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations to track detailed structure changes during oxidations of flat and stepped Pt surfaces, which is normally inaccessible to costly ab initio calculations. These structural evolution trajectories reveal the stages of surface oxidation without laboriously manual construction of surface models. We identify the building blocks of oxide formation and elucidate the surface oxide formation mechanism on Pt surfaces. The insightful interpretations of the oxide formation are likely to be general for other metal surfaces. We demonstrate that these large-scale simulations would be a powerful tool to investigate realistic structures and the formation mechanisms of complicated systems.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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