Robotics in the Laboratory: A Generic Approach

Sharp, Robert L.; Whitfield, Richard G.; Fox, Lloyd E.

doi:10.1021/ac00169a737

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“…Another direction is welcoming more chemists to the field. Heading in the first direction requires chemists to be equipped with skills in programming and robotics. − Heading in the second direction requires making accessible and affordable scientific equipment to a vast majority of the already growing population. Popularizing the implementation of open-source and inexpensive electronic hardware and software in chemistry research seems to be a way to reach the above goal.…”

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Elevating Chemistry Research with a Modern Electronics Toolkit

Prabhu

Urban

2020

Chem. Rev.

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With the rapid development of high technology, chemical science is not as it used to be a century ago. Many chemists acquire and utilize skills that are well beyond the traditional definition of chemistry. The digital age has transformed chemistry laboratories. One aspect of this transformation is the progressing implementation of electronics and computer science in chemistry research. In the past decade, numerous chemistry-oriented studies have benefited from the implementation of electronic modules, including microcontroller boards (MCBs), single-board computers (SBCs), professional grade control and data acquisition systems, as well as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). In particular, MCBs and SBCs provide good value for money. The application areas for electronic modules in chemistry research include construction of simple detection systems based on spectrophotometry and spectrofluorometry principles, customizing laboratory devices for automation of common laboratory practices, control of reaction systems (batch- and flow-based), extraction systems, chromatographic and electrophoretic systems, microfluidic systems (classical and nonclassical), custom-built polymerase chain reaction devices, gas-phase analyte detection systems, chemical robots and drones, construction of FPGA-based imaging systems, and the Internet-of-Chemical-Things. The technology is easy to handle, and many chemists have managed to train themselves in its implementation. The only major obstacle in its implementation is probably one’s imagination.

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Elevating Chemistry Research with a Modern Electronics Toolkit

Prabhu

Urban

2020

Chem. Rev.

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“…3 Since then, automation has slowly crept into the synthetic chemistry laboratory, originally in the form of mechanized systems designed to perform largely identical tasks. 4,5 These systems laid the groundwork for the development of specialized platforms capable of automating combinatorial chemistry 6 and high-throughput experimentation, 7 which are now industry standards in pharmaceutical research and development. More recently, there has been a shift towards flexible, modular systems with a focus on autonomous decisionmaking rather than simple automation.…”

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