Spinel‑Oxide ORR Dataset

Fully‑solvated JDFT calculations & metadata for ORR pathways on 442 compositions

Colin Bundschu, Cornell University (2025)

1  What’s inside?

This archive contains two Firestore collections exported to JSON and sqlite:

| Collection | Purpose | Count | |------------|---------|-------| | materials | Every individual DFT geometry (bulk + adsorbates) | ≈3 million docs | | studies | Groups of calculations assembled into complete minimum‑energy path (MEP) diagrams, with stoichiometric bookkeeping for a Computational Hydrogen Electrode (CHE) analysis | 887 docs |

The json file you downloaded, spinel_orr.json (≈300 MB), has a single top‑level object:

{
  "materials": [ … ],
  "studies":   [ … ]
}

2 sqlite database schema (auto-generated)

materials

| column | type | description | |--------|------|--------------| | material_id | TEXT | | | timestamp | TEXT | |

calcs

| column | type | description | |--------|------|--------------| | material_id | TEXT | | | facet | TEXT | | | adsorbate_id | TEXT | | | calc_id | TEXT | | | Adsorbate | TEXT | | | Bond_length_A | REAL | | | Dft_utc_timestamp_s | INTEGER | | | Elec_smearing_eV | REAL | | | Etot_eV | REAL | | | Fluid | TEXT | | | Forces_max_L2_eVpA | REAL | | | Forces_sum_L2_eVpA | REAL | | | Frozen_layers | INTEGER | | | GPUs | INTEGER | | | Geo | TEXT | | | Kpoints | TEXT | | | Last_modified_utc_ts | TEXT | | | Lattice_abc | TEXT | | | Lattice_abc_start | TEXT | | | Lattice_type | TEXT | | | Lattice_type_start | TEXT | | | Layers | INTEGER | | | Lock_depth | INTEGER | | | Material | TEXT | | | Processes | INTEGER | | | Python_error | TEXT | | | Runtime_s | REAL | | | Size_KB | REAL | | | Status | TEXT | | | Status_error | TEXT | | | Threads | INTEGER | | | atoms_frozen | TEXT | | | atoms_mag | TEXT | | | atoms_num | TEXT | | | atoms_ox | TEXT | | | atoms_xyz | TEXT | | | expfit_R2_t0h_E0eV_abc_stddevs | TEXT | | | expfit_error | TEXT | | | forces_eVpA | TEXT | | | hyper_ionA_elecAN_fluidAN | TEXT | | | min_Etots_eV | TEXT | | | min_dft_utc_timestamps_s | TEXT | | | min_forces_max_L2_eVpA | TEXT | | | min_forces_sum_L2_eVpA | TEXT | | | min_iters | TEXT | | | min_times_s | TEXT | | | min_types | TEXT | | | min_unit_cell_volume_A3 | TEXT | | | mu_eV | REAL | | | stress_eVpA3 | TEXT | | | calc_Facet | TEXT | |

studies

| column | type | description | |--------|------|--------------| | study_id | TEXT | | | Material | TEXT | | | Facet | TEXT | | | Layers | INTEGER | | | Frozen_layers | INTEGER | | | Base_dft_ref | TEXT | | | free_species_name | TEXT | | | free_species_phase | TEXT | | | free_species_dft_ref | TEXT | | | free_species_mm | TEXT | | | step_index | TEXT | | | step_dft_ref | TEXT | | | step_free_species_counts | TEXT | | | timestamp | TEXT | |

4  Coverage & known quirks

  • Compositions: 442 spinels (Al, Co, Cr, Fe, Ga, Mn, Ni, Zn) with at least 86 calculations each
  • Facets: bulk, (100) mixed/oct, (111) tetra/oct
  • Solvation models: NLPCM for 100s facet, otherwise CANDLE.
  • Charging: Fixed‑potential JDFT was used for all calculations (mu_eV logged in materials)

5  Contact

email colin.bundschu@gmail.com.