Classifying and predicting the electron affinity of diamond nanoparticles using machine learning (2019)
Original Study Abstract
Using a combination of electronic structure simulations and machine learning we have shown that the characteristic negative electron affinity (NEA) of hydrogenated diamond nanoparticles exhibits a class-dependent structure/property relationship. Using a random forest classifier we find that the NEA will either be consistent with bulk diamond surfaces, or much higher than the bulk diamond value; and using class-specific random forest regressors with extra trees we find that these classes are either size-dependent or anisotropy-dependent, respectively. This suggests that the purification or screening of nanodiamond samples to improve homogeneity may be undertaken based on the negative electron affinity.
Data Sample
Nanoparticle |
NC |
NH |
NH/NC |
D_nm |
Shape |
Ani |
E |
EA |
dCC |
dCCe |
dCH |
dCHe |
tCCC |
tCCCe |
tCCH |
tCCHe |
1 |
5989 |
904 |
0.1509 |
42.218 |
Cuboctahedron |
1.105 |
-2.926.453.876 |
-3.391 |
1.543 |
0.015 |
1.116 |
0.003 |
109.22 |
3.04 |
111.6 |
1.94 |
2 |
5975 |
976 |
0.1633 |
42.187 |
Truncated octahedron |
1.099 |
-2.928.624.965 |
-13.483 |
1.541 |
0.009 |
1.118 |
0.002 |
109.42 |
1.77 |
109.79 |
1.64 |
3 |
4608 |
780 |
0.1693 |
38.853 |
Cuboctahedron |
1.105 |
-2.259.410.094 |
-34.553 |
1.543 |
0.017 |
1.116 |
0.005 |
109.17 |
3.31 |
111.83 |
2.53 |
4 |
4886 |
844 |
0.1727 |
3.958 |
Truncated octahedron |
1.099 |
-2.399.174.882 |
-13.515 |
1.542 |
0.009 |
1.118 |
0.003 |
109.4 |
1.96 |
109.92 |
1.73 |
5 |
3944 |
688 |
0.1744 |
36.991 |
Cuboctahedron |
1.105 |
-1.936.339.686 |
-34.713 |
1.542 |
0.015 |
1.117 |
0.003 |
109.24 |
2.96 |
111.15 |
2 |
Data Summary
Variable |
Count (unique values) |
NC |
171 |
NH |
113 |
NH/NC |
224 |
D_nm |
171 |
Shape |
13 |
Ani |
47 |
E |
231 |
EA |
230 |
dCC |
22 |
dCCe |
31 |
dCH |
40 |
dCHe |
27 |
tCCC |
48 |
tCCCe |
155 |
tCCH |
125 |
tCCHe |
137 |