A fully automated platform for photoinitiated RAFT polymerization

作者：Jules Lee, Prajakatta Mulay, Matthew Tamasi, Jonathan Yeow, Molly M. Stevens, Adam J. Gormley · 发表于：Digital Discovery · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1039/d2dd00100d · 被引用次数：32 · 研究领域：Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization、Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation、Photopolymerization techniques and applications

a robotic arm. We found that this platform enabled robust parallel polymer synthesis of both acrylate and acrylamide homopolymers and copolymers, with high monomer conversions and low dispersity. The successful polymerizations obtained on this platform make it an efficient tool for combinatorial polymer chemistry. In addition, with the inclusion of machine learning protocols to help navigate the polymer space towards specific properties of interest, this robotic platform can ultimately become a self-driving lab that can dispense, synthesize, and monitor large polymer libraries.