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Thermodynamics-Grounded AI-Collaboration Trend in Systematically Exploring Models and Interpretably Predicting Thermophysical Properties for Working Fluids

    Fund Project: This work was supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 3264044) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2026M790642). Xiayao Peng acknowledges support from the Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program (Grant No. 2025SM040).
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    Peng X., Jin Y., Li J., et al. (2026). Thermodynamics-Grounded AI-Collaboration Trend in Systematically Exploring Models and Interpretably Predicting Thermophysical Properties for Working Fluids. Energy Use 2:100073. https://doi.org/10.59717/ipj.energy-use.2026.100073
    Peng X., Jin Y., Li J., et al. (2026). Thermodynamics-Grounded AI-Collaboration Trend in Systematically Exploring Models and Interpretably Predicting Thermophysical Properties for Working Fluids. Energy Use 2:100073. https://doi.org/10.59717/ipj.energy-use.2026.100073

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