Case Study Panasonic Small Molecule Development
Case Study Panasonic Small Molecule Development
STUDY
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MACHINE LEARNING
ACCELERATES
MATERIALS DISCOVERY
PANASONIC DEVELOPS NEW, PATENT
PENDING ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR
MOLECULES WITH CITRINE’S AI PLATFORM
| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
| THE CHALLENGE
“This work demonstrates the utility The internet of things requires flexible, lightweight
and inexpensive semiconductors. Panasonic is already
of using the sequential learning using organic semiconductors for IOT applications, but
methodology to design experiments they needed a way to reduce processing costs while also
for the discovery of novel materials.” increasing performance. Heteroacenes are a molecular
class of organic semiconductor that are soluble in organic
solvents, enabling cheap spin-coating techniques. But
Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, there are millions of them, far too many to exhaustively
survey experimentally or computationally. Panasonic and
Panasonic
Citrine combined their expertise to meet this challenge.
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CASE
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Next, Panasonic's molecular simulation team combined In addition to reduced R&D time and cost, the
their expertise in physics-based Density Functional Panasonic team gained insight into the effects of
Theory (DFT) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations molecular structure and fused thiophene rings on hole
with the AI capabilities of the Citrine Platform. MD and mobility. This scientific knowledge is now captured
DFT are less time-consuming than synthesizing and in the machine learning models and can be reused on
testing physical samples, but they still take days. Citrine's future projects.
AI was able to focus the Panasonic team's efforts on
simulations with the highest likelihood of success.