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Explainable machine learning and physics-constrained optimization of chalcogen catalysts for sustainable hydrogen production.

Du Nguyen, M Olga Guerrero-Pérez, Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón, Minh Chuong Nguyen, Hadiyanto Hadiyanto, Van Hoc Le, Van Huong Dong, Xuan Phuong Nguyen, Anh Tuan Hoang

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Du NguyenInstitute of Engineering, HUTECH University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
M Olga Guerrero-PérezDepartment of Chemical Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering, University of Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
Enrique Rodríguez-CastellónDepartment of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Interuniversitary Institute for Research in Biorefineries I3B, University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
Minh Chuong NguyenInstitute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam.
Hadiyanto HadiyantoChemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia.
Van Hoc LeFaculty of Engineering, Dong Nai Technology University, Dong Nai, Vietnam.
Van Huong DongPATET Research Group, University of Transport Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam.
Xuan Phuong NguyenPATET Research Group, University of Transport Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam.
Anh Tuan HoangPATET Research Group, University of Transport Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam.

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The accelerating demand for clean energy has intensified research on sustainable hydrogen production, where efficient chalcogen catalyst design remains a major challenge. Most of the existing studies are, however, only concerned with predictive modeling, neglecting physical feasibility and consistency in the optimization process. To overcome this, this study proposes an integrated machine learning and optimization framework, physics-constrained optimization (PCO) and trust-region Bayesian optimization (TRBO), for engineering of chalcogen-based electrocatalysts. The proposed framework takes into account domain-specific physical band gap constraints, such as physically stable formation energies and realistic density bounds, to guarantee physically meaningful and practically feasible solutions. The XGBoost model trained with engineered Magpie descriptors has demonstrated excellent predictive accuracy with R

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band gap predictionchalcogen electrocatalysthydrogen productionphysics-constrained optimizationSHAP analysistrust-region Bayesian optimization

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