echemdb 0.1.1

a Python library to work with the echemdb repository

The echemdb repository contains high quality experimental and theoretical data on electrochemical systems.

This module provides a Python library to interact with the data in the repository.

In the following we provide installation instructions for the echemdb module and a short summary of the basic usage of the Python API. Detailed installation instructions, description of the modules, advanced usage examples, including local database creation, are provided in our documentation.

Installation instructions

Clone the repository and install echemdb

pip install git+https://github.com/echemdb/echemdb.git

Python API

The current state of the website can be downloaded and stored in a database.

>>> from echemdb.cv.database import Database
>>> db = Database()

Filtering the database for entries having specific properties, e.g., containing Pt as working electrode material, returns a new database.

>>> db_filtered = db.filter(lambda entry: entry.system.electrodes.working_electrode.material == 'Pt')

A single entry can be retrieved with the identifiers provided on the website (see for example engstfeld_2018_polycrystalline_17743_f4b_1)

>>> entry = db['engstfeld_2018_polycrystalline_17743_f4b_1']

Each entry has information about its source

>>> entry.source # or entry['source']
{'citation key': 'engstfeld_2018_polycrystalline_17743', 'curve': 1, 'url': 'https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201803418', 'figure': '4b', 'version': 1}

Among other metadata, the entry also has information on the original publication's figure properties (entry.figure_description) and the entry.system in general.

The data related to an entry can be returned as a pandas dataframe (values are provided in SI units) and can be stored as a CSV file (or any other format supported by pandas).

>>> entry.df
           t	        E	       j
0	0.000000	-0.196962	0.043009
1	0.011368	-0.196393	0.051408
...
>>> entry.df.to_csv('../testtesttest.csv', index=False)

The dataframe can be returned with custom or original figure axes' units by rescaling the entry.

>>> entry.rescale({'E' : 'mV', 'j' : 'uA / m2'}).df
          t           E             j
0  0.000000 -196.961730  43008.842162
1  0.011368 -196.393321  51408.199892
...
>>> entry.rescale('original').df
          t         E         j
0  0.000000 -0.196962  4.300884
1  0.011368 -0.196393  5.140820
...

The units and reference electrodes can be found in the resource schema. The units are updated upon rescaling an entry.

>>> entry.package.get_resource('echemdb')['schema']
{'fields': 
[{'name': 't', 'unit': 's', 'type': 'number'}, 
{'name': 'E', 'unit': 'V', 'reference': 'RHE', 'type': 'number'}, 
{'name': 'j', 'unit': 'A / m2', 'type': 'number'}]}

The data can be visualized in a plotly figure:

>>> entry.plot()

License

The contents of this repository are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or, at your option, any later version.