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ArticleAdvanced intelligent systems (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2020

Automation of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization.

Matthew Tamasi, Shashank Kosuri, Jason DiStefano, Robert Chapman, Adam J Gormley

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Article in Advanced intelligent systems (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Matthew TamasiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Shashank KosuriDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Jason DiStefanoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Robert ChapmanAustralian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN) and the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.
Adam J GormleyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

Funding

UMDNJ TRAINING GRANT IN BIOTECHNOLOGYT32GM008339 · NIGMS · RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK · PI YARMUSH, MARTIN L · 1989 to 2019
$6.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008339
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Controlled/living radical polymerization (CLRP) techniques are widely utilized to synthesize advanced and controlled synthetic polymers for chemical and biological applications. While automation has long stood as a high-throughput (HTP) research tool to increase productivity as well as synthetic/analytical reliability and precision, oxygen intolerance of CLRP has limited the widespread adoption of these systems. Recently, however, oxygen-tolerant CLRP techniques, such as oxygen-tolerant photoinduced electron/energy transfer-reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT), enzyme degassing of RAFT (Enz-RAFT), and atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), have emerged. Herein, the use of a Hamilton MLSTARlet liquid handling robot for automating CLRP reactions is demonstrated. Synthesis processes are developed using Python and used to automate reagent handling, dispensing sequences, and synthesis steps required to create homopolymers, random heteropolymers, and block copolymers in 96-well plates, as well as postpolymerization modifications. Using this approach, the synergy between highly customizable liquid handling robotics and oxygen-tolerant CLRP to automate advanced polymer synthesis for HTP and combinatorial polymer research is demonstrated.

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automationhigh throughputoxygen tolerantpolymersreversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer

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PMID35586369
PMCPMC9113399

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