Periodic Topological Deep Learning for Polymer Design and Discovery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26833v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 10:51:49 GMT
• Title: Periodic Topological Deep Learning for Polymer Design and Discovery
• Abstract summary: We introduce Periodic-TDL, a deep learning framework built on periodic Vietoris-Rips complexes that capture many-body interactions across multiple spatial scales.<n> Periodic-TDL outperforms all state-of-the-art models across polymer property prediction tasks spanning electronic, optical, physical, and thermal targets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Polymers underpin applications across energy, healthcare, and materials science, yet their vast chemical space makes systematic discovery challenging. Most machine learning approaches represent polymers as molecular graphs of a single repeating unit, thereby missing both the periodicity of polymer chains and many-body interactions beyond pairwise bonds. We introduce Periodic-TDL, a deep learning framework built on periodic Vietoris-Rips complexes that capture many-body interactions across multiple spatial scales, followed by a hierarchical simplicial message-passing (HSMP) encoder that propagates information from long-range interactions to covalent bonds, yielding representations enriched by higher-order topological features. Periodic-TDL outperforms all state-of-the-art models across polymer property prediction tasks spanning electronic, optical, physical, and thermal targets. Furthermore, we quantitatively validate how ester-to-amide substitution and $α$-methylation enhance thermal stability. Using a computationally synthesized dataset of 48,208 structures-generated via systematic substitution of acrylate and acrylamide polymers-we observed a mean $T_g$ increase of $\sim 55^\circ$C for ester-to-amide substitutions and $\sim 14^\circ$C for backbone $α$-methylation across matched polymer pairs. To verify these predicted trends, we use our Periodic-TDL model to analyze six novel polymer pairs from independent experimental measurements, including three newly synthesized polymers previously unreported in the literature. The experimental data successfully confirmed the model's predictions. Ultimately, these findings demonstrate that Periodic-TDL captures the underlying physical effects of specific functional group modifications, rather than merely optimizing predictive performance on benchmark datasets.

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