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ArticleNature communications2025

Active learning accelerates electrolyte solvent screening for anode-free lithium metal batteries.

Peiyuan Ma, Ritesh Kumar, Ke-Hsin Wang, Chibueze V Amanchukwu

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Peiyuan Ma *Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
Ritesh Kumar *Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6345-6791
Ke-Hsin WangPritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
Chibueze V AmanchukwuPritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA. chibueze@uchicago.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6573-1213

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National Science Foundation (NSF) CBET 2144454
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anode-free or 'zero-excess' lithium metal batteries offer high energy density compared to current lithium-ion batteries but require electrolyte innovation to extend cycle life. Due to the lack of universal design principles, electrolyte development for anode-free lithium metal batteries is slow and incremental and mainly driven by trial-and-error. Here, we demonstrate the use of active learning as an alternative approach to accelerate electrolyte discovery for anode-free lithium metal batteries. Unlike conventional data-intensive frequentist machine learning techniques, our active learning framework employs sequential Bayesian experimental design with Bayesian model averaging to efficiently identify optimal candidates in typical data-scarce and noisy label settings. Using capacity retention in real Cu||LiFePO

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