Virtual Material Design Framework for Secondary Battery Development

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for developing new materials for secondary batteries are time-consuming and costly, requiring separate experiments and meta-heuristic calculations across molecular, microstructure, and cell structure stages, with limited data integration and accuracy in evaluating material characteristics.

Innovation Solution

A virtual material design service framework based on a microservice architecture, which integrates data across various scales using a combination modeling scheme and artificial intelligence, allowing for simultaneous checking of results across stages and improving accuracy through image-based AI models.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If separate experiments and meta-heuristic calculations are performed across molecular, microstructure, and cell structure stages, then comprehensive material evaluation is achieved, but development time and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematerial evaluation accuracyVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the material development process into independent microservices corresponding to different structural stages (molecular, microstructure, cell structure). Each microservice handles specific calculations and experiments independently, allowing parallel execution and simultaneous result checking, thereby reducing overall development time while maintaining comprehensive evaluation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary virtual screening and filtering at earlier stages using AI models trained on historical data. This preliminary action identifies promising candidates before committing to time-consuming experiments and detailed calculations, significantly reducing the number of materials that require full-stage evaluation and thus reducing overall development time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If separate experiments and meta-heuristic calculations are performed across molecular, microstructure, and cell structure stages, then comprehensive material evaluation is achieved, but development costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematerial evaluation accuracyVSAvoiddevelopment costs
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the material development process into independent microservices corresponding to different structural stages (molecular, microstructure, cell structure). Each microservice handles specific calculations and experiments independently, allowing parallel execution and simultaneous result checking, thereby reducing overall development time while maintaining comprehensive evaluation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary virtual screening and filtering at earlier stages using AI models trained on historical data. This preliminary action identifies promising candidates before committing to time-consuming experiments and detailed calculations, significantly reducing the number of materials that require full-stage evaluation and thus reducing overall development time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If data is integrated across multiple scales using combination modeling, then material discovery accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematerial discovery accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the material development process into independent microservices corresponding to different structural stages (molecular, microstructure, cell structure). Each microservice handles specific calculations and experiments independently, allowing parallel execution and simultaneous result checking, thereby reducing overall development time while maintaining comprehensive evaluation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an AI service as an intermediary that integrates data from multiple scales (molecular, microstructure, cell structure) through combination modeling. This AI service acts as a mediator that combines simulation models with experimental data, managing the complexity of multi-scale data integration while improving material discovery accuracy through unified analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Measurement precision

If image-based AI models are used to evaluate material characteristics, then evaluation accuracy is improved, but computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation accuracyVSAvoidcomputational energy
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary virtual screening and filtering at earlier stages using AI models trained on historical data. This preliminary action identifies promising candidates before committing to time-consuming experiments and detailed calculations, significantly reducing the number of materials that require full-stage evaluation and thus reducing overall development time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the material development process into independent microservices corresponding to different structural stages (molecular, microstructure, cell structure). Each microservice handles specific calculations and experiments independently, allowing parallel execution and simultaneous result checking, thereby reducing overall development time while maintaining comprehensive evaluation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20250166742A1Virtual material design service framework for developing material for secondary battery based on microservice architecture and operating method thereof
Publication Date: 2025.05.22 KOREA ELECTRONICS TECH INST
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AI summary

Proposed is a virtual material design service framework system for developing a material for a secondary battery based on a microservice architecture. The system may include a user interface unit receiving information on a new material having at least one structure of a molecular structure, a microstructure, and a cell structure, an experiment database unit storing experiment data information corresponding to the information on the new material, and a simulation unit generating a simulation model by performing simulations on the received information on the new material. The system may also include a data modeling unit generating a data model based on the experiment data information, a combination modeling unit combining the simulation model and the data model according to a combination modeling scheme, and an artificial intelligence service unit converting the combination model into an image and deriving a candidate material based on a predetermined image recognition scheme.