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ArticleDigital discovery2025

An automated platform for "on-demand" high-speed catalyst synthesis by flame spray pyrolysis.

Konstantin M Engel, Patrik O Willi, Robert N Grass, Wendelin J Stark

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Article in Digital discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Konstantin M EngelFunctional Materials Laboratory, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1/1-5 8093 Zürich Switzerland wendelin.stark@chem.ethz.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5846-5239
Patrik O WilliFunctional Materials Laboratory, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1/1-5 8093 Zürich Switzerland wendelin.stark@chem.ethz.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3897-222X
Robert N GrassFunctional Materials Laboratory, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1/1-5 8093 Zürich Switzerland wendelin.stark@chem.ethz.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6968-0823
Wendelin J StarkFunctional Materials Laboratory, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1/1-5 8093 Zürich Switzerland wendelin.stark@chem.ethz.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3078-0354

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Abstract

Flame-Spray Pyrolysis (FSP) is a versatile synthetic aerosol method to produce inorganic mixed-metal nanoparticles, frequently used for catalysts, battery materials, or chromophores. This work introduces a novel automated robotic platform based on FSP - AutoFSP - to accelerate materials discovery and optimization while providing standardized, machine-readable documentation of all synthesis steps. The manuscript outlines the design considerations for both hardware and software of AutoFSP, as well as the platform's performance in terms of speed, accuracy, and repeatability. AutoFSP has demonstrated significant time savings by reducing operator workload by a factor of two to three, while also improving documentation and decreasing the chance of human experimental error. AutoFSP achieves high compositional accuracy and precision across two orders of magnitude. The relative error of the effective molar metal loading

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