Application of machine learning model in material simulation using Python on Google Colab
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Abstract
This study builds a machine learning model using artificial neural networks to train machine learning-based atomic interaction potentials from data by molecular dynamics simulations. The goal is to predict the formation energy of armchair-edge graphene nanoribbon with a missing carbon atom. The deep learning algorithm is implemented on the Google Colab platform using Python language.
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Deep learning, Google Colab, machine learning, neural networks, Python
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