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ArticleNature2024

Autonomous mobile robots for exploratory synthetic chemistry.

Tianwei Dai, Sriram Vijayakrishnan, Filip T Szczypiński, Jean-François Ayme, Ehsan Simaei, Thomas Fellowes, Rob Clowes, Lyubomir Kotopanov, Caitlin E Shields, Zhengxue Zhou and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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77 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Tianwei Dai *Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Sriram Vijayakrishnan *Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0009-0002-8477-5366
Filip T Szczypiński *Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3174-8532
Jean-François Ayme *Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2343-4907
Ehsan Simaei *Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2403-8084
Thomas FellowesLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6389-6049
Rob ClowesLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0009-0002-4686-2119
Lyubomir KotopanovLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0009-0005-9247-7870
Caitlin E ShieldsLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Zhengxue ZhouLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
John W WardLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7186-6416
Andrew I CooperLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. aicooper@liverpool.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-0201-1021

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autonomous laboratories can accelerate discoveries in chemical synthesis, but this requires automated measurements coupled with reliable decision-making

Indexed as

Chemistry Techniques, SyntheticRoboticsAlgorithmsChromatography, LiquidDecision MakingLaboratoriesMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMass SpectrometryPhotochemistryReproducibility of ResultsWorkflow

Identifiers

PMID39506122
PMCPMC11602721

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