“…However, modern technologies such as electric cars and wireless electronic devices demand new high-capacity battery materials , that reduce our dependence on Li, which is an expensive and volatile commodity . This has motivated research into alternative materials, such as sodium-ion batteries, , to make the energy economy more sustainable. , ML has been used to predict the electrochemical potential for new cathode materials and establish quantitative molecular structure-redox potential relationships to help find new and stable battery materials. , In each case, multiple structural characteristics, such as the numbers of oxygen atoms, boron atoms, carbon atoms, and aromatic rings, are used to predict the voltage, capacity, or charge. , However, in order to use ML as a planning tool, guiding what data to include, what simulations to schedule, or what experiments to try, screening must be done in advance of research based on the chemical composition alone. Prescreening before costly or toxic materials are made, energy-consuming simulations are run, or time-consuming characterization is undertaken would only be possible if structural information can be safely omitted.…”