Portrait de Michel Côté

Michel Côté

Membre académique associé
Université de Montréal
Sujets de recherche
Modélisation moléculaire
Physique computationnelle
Physique de la matière condensée

Étudiants actuels

Doctorat - UdeM
Postdoctorat - UdeM

Publications

A Comparative Study of Molecular Dynamics Approaches for Simulating Ionic Conductivity in Solid Lithium Electrolytes
Accurate prediction of ionic conductivity is critical for the design of highperformance solid-state electrolytes in next-generation batterie… (voir plus)s. We benchmark molecular dynamics (MD) approaches for computing ionic conductivity in 21 lithium solid electrolytes for which experimental ionic conductivity has been previously reported in the literature. Specifically, we compare simulations driven by density functional theory (DFT) and by universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs), namely a MACE foundation model. Our results suggest comparable performance between DFT and MACE, with MACE requiring only a fraction of the computational cost. The framework developed here is designed to enable systematic comparisons with additional uMLIPs and fine-tuned models in future work.