- Explore electrode, electrolyte, and solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) properties such as redox potentials and ion mobility (diffusivity and coordination environments) for battery materials
- Optimize photovoltaic material properties and performance metrics for semiconductors, photosensitive materials, perovskites, and organic photovoltaics
- Elucidate chemical reaction profiles for energy storage processes, catalytic mechanisms, and degradation pathways
- Predict hydrogen (or other small molecule) molecular mobility and stability in storage materials
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Safer, cheaper, and more effective batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors are critical in overcoming societal ecological challenges in the automotive, aviation, and energy industries.
Schrödinger’s Materials Science platform provides the tools to model materials at the molecular level, using computational power to drive forward the development of cleaner, lighter, safer, more energy-efficient, and lower cost materials for batteries, fuel cells, and photovoltaics – ready to power the next generation of innovation.
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Predict key properties for batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, and hydrogen storage R&D
Accelerate new materials discovery with high-throughput screening and machine learning
- Run high-throughput screening of new materials candidates to identify the best performers
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- Screen electrolyte properties relevant to SEI formation
Enable access to digital materials design through a centralized informatics platform
- Bridge the gap between experimental and computational data
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- Enhance collaboration and decision-making across your enterprise
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Application note: Battery and energy storage materials
Energy capture and storage
Leveraging atomic scale modeling for design and discovery of next-generation battery materials
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Molecular modeling for materials science applications: Battery materials course
Online certification course: Level-up your skill set in battery modeling
Learn how to apply industry-leading computational software to predict key properties of organic and organometallic compounds, determine transition state and generate reaction profiles with automated workflows and machine learning models.
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Key products
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Jaguar
Quantum mechanics solution for rapid and accurate prediction of molecular structures and properties
MS Informatics
Efficient machine learning model builder for materials science applications
Desmond
High-performance molecular dynamics (MD) engine providing high scalability, throughput, and scientific accuracy
MS CG
Efficient coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for large systems over long time scales
OPLS4 & OPLS5 Force Field
A modern, comprehensive force field for accurate molecular simulations
MS Transport
Efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulation tool for predicting liquid viscosity and diffusions of atoms and molecules
DeepAutoQSAR
Automated, scalable solution for the training and application of predictive machine learning models
Quantum ESPRESSO GUI
Integrated graphical user interface for nanoscale quantum mechanical simulations
Training Tutorials
Liquid electrolyte properties: Part 1
View tutorialLiquid electrolyte properties: Part 2
View tutorialCalculating voltage curves of spinel intercalation compounds
View tutorialMachine learning for ionic conductivity
View tutorialPublications
Browse the list of peer-reviewed publications using Schrödinger technology in related application areas.
High-dimensional neural network potential for liquid electrolyte simulations
Dajnowicz S et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 2022, 126, 33, 6271–6280
Data-driven discovery of small electroactive molecules for energy storage in aqueous redox flow batteries
Zhang Q et al. Energy Storage Materials, 2022, 47, 167-177
Elementary decomposition mechanisms of lithium hexafluorophosphate in battery electrolytes and interphases
Persson K.A. et al. ACS Energy Lett. 2023, 8, 1, 347–355
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