Chained LLM-human interactive framework for electrolyte design in four-electron Zn-I2 batteries
摘要
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is gaining rapid development and providing powerful tools for chemical and material discovery, even for researchers without expertise in programming. However, the complexity of chemical mechanisms and sparse data characteristics impose difficulties in harnessing LLMs in specific materials experimental research. In this study, we propose a chained LLM-human interaction study to utilize GPT-4 in professional chemistry/material research. Specifically, we build an interactive workflow to break down the task into several steps to propose and scrutinize electrolyte materials for four-electron zinc-iodine (Zn-I2) batteries, an emerging branch of secondary batteries for energy storage. In the interactive study, GPT-4 retrieves key literature information for human comprehension, recommends promising electrolyte materials for experimental evaluation, and rates the potential materials with humans for battery application. Through the chained LLM-Human interaction, we not only summarize the mechanism and find applicable materials for multi-electron zinc-iodine batteries, enhancing the performance of four-electron Zn-I2 batteries (more than 1000 cycles with high Coulombic efficiency) but also establish a feasible approach to integrating LLMs in professional experimental research, which could further inspire and accelerate chemistry and materials science.