High-entropy alloy catalysts: high-throughput and machine learning-driven design

Abstract

High-entropy alloy (HEA) catalysts have recently attracted worldwide research interest due to their promising catalytic performance. Most current studies focus on designing HEA catalysts through trial-and-error methods. This produces scattered data and is not conducive to obtaining a fundamental understanding of the structure-property-performance relationships for HEA catalysts, thereby hindering their rational design. High-throughput (HT) techniques and machine learning (ML) methods show significant potential in generating, processing and analyzing databases with a vast amount of data, providing a new strategy for the further development of HEA catalysts. In this review, we summarize the recent literature on HT techniques for HEA synthesis, characterization and performance testing. We also review the ML models that are used to process and analyze existing databases to accelerate the discovery of HEA catalysts. Finally, the potential challenges and perspectives of HT techniques and ML models are presented to accelerate the discovery of new HEA catalysts and promote their development.

Keywords

High-entropy alloys / catalysts / high-throughput / machine learning / structure-activity relationship

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