AI-driven mobile robots team up to tackle chemical synthesis

Chemical research in turbo mode

08-Nov-2024 - Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed AI-driven mobile robots that can carry out chemical synthesis research with axtraordinairy efficiency. In a study publishingin the journal Nature, researchers show how mobile robots that use AI logic to make decisions were able to perform ...

Autonomous synthesis robot uses AI to speed up chemical discovery

Impressive ingenuity

30-Jan-2024 - Chemists of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have developed an autonomous chemical synthesis robot with an integrated AI-driven machine learning unit. Dubbed ‘RoboChem’, the benchtop device can outperform a human chemist in terms of speed and accuracy while also displaying a high level of ...

Golden wedding for molecules

Opportunities for a "new" chemistry

20-Apr-2022 - Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules have to result in something new in an extremely short time. But there is another way: on a gold surface under ultrahigh vacuum conditions, molecules lying still next to each other ...

Chemistry in motion

Researchers produce first-ever videos of chemical synthesis at atomic resolution

26-Aug-2019 - For the first time, researchers have managed to view previously inaccessible details of certain chemical processes. They have shown there are significant discrete stages to these processes which build on our knowledge of chemical synthesis. These details could aid in the development of methods to ...

Viewing a catalytic reaction in action

Researchers monitors the steps of a chemical reaction mediated by a metallic surface

06-May-2016 - To be able to follow and directly visualize how the structure of molecules changes when they undergo complex chemical transformations has been a long-standing goal of chemistry. While reaction intermediates are particularly difficult to identify and characterize due to their short lifetimes, ...

Sustainable production of pharmaceutical compounds

SmartCell project: Novel plant biotechnology

10-Apr-2014 - European scientists have made ground-breaking discoveries for improving the efficiency of the production of pharmaceuticals through plant biotechnology. Biotechnological production offers a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to the chemical synthesis of rare and complex ...

Metabolically engineered E. coli producing phenol

10-Oct-2013 - Many chemicals we use in everyday life are derived from fossil resources. Due to the increasing concerns on the use of fossil resources, there has been much interest in producing chemicals from renewable resources through biotechnology. Phenol is an important commodity chemical, and is a starting ...

CEM Announces Formation of Japanese Subsidiary

19-Mar-2010 - CEM Corporation announced the formation of a new subsidiary headquartered in Tokyo with an additional office in Osaka, Japan. CEM Japan will be responsible for all sales, marketing, technical support and service of the Company’s entire line of laboratory instrumentation in Japan and selected ...

Fitting pieces for biosensors

15-Apr-2009 - Research and industry are increasingly exploiting the potential of aptamers. As well as their application in research, medical diagnosis and treatment, aptamers are also interesting as a basis for biosensors for use in environmental analysis because their characteristics enable them to identify ...

A molecular ripcord for chemical reactions

09-Apr-2009 - Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have developed an entirely new method for starting chemical reactions. For the first time they used mechanical forces to control catalytic activity - one of the most fundamental concepts in chemistry. This allowed them to initiate chemical ...