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Just submitted to arXiv.org: Amy's work on closed loop autonomous crystallisation, sample preparation, and powder X-ray diffraction. This is the most complex automated workflow that we've built so far, involving 3 separate robots & 13 steps Leverhulme Research Centre - Materials Design MIF ERC_ADAM

39,425 次观看 • 2 年前 •via X (Twitter)

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Andy Cooper2 年前

The workflow starts with crystal growth followed by sample preparation (2-step grinding), sample mounting, and PXRD data acquisition. It is orchestrated by our system architecture, #ARChemist, masterminded by @HatemFakhrulde1

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Andy Cooper2 年前

A key step is grinding the crystals for better orientational averaging (and, indeed, to get them out of the sample vial ...)

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Andy Cooper2 年前

To process the crystals, we use this versatile @ABBRobotics YuMi robot for sample handling

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Andy Cooper2 年前

Very proud of @amylunt for building this in her PhD, especially given the huge slow-down during COVID. Amy, you're a superstar. The work was done with @sam_c and also involved @HatemFakhrulde1, @gabriellapizz, Louis, @TheWubberDuck, @nici_rankin, @robclow11 and Ben A. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Andy Cooper 的头像
Andy Cooper2 年前

By the way - if anyone is interested, we are hiring a Lecturer in this general area of chemistry automation - advert to be posted soon (DM me if you're interested)

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Andy Cooper2 年前

Credit also to @daftpunk for the 🎸

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Andy Cooper2 年前

Btw, I have the @amazon receipt for the MP3 ...

Prof Ross Forgan 的头像
Prof Ross Forgan2 年前

@arxiv @amylunt @LC_Mater_Design @MIF_UoL @erc_adam This gets a “very cool!” and “how can they get robots to do that?” from my 5yo daughter. Have to say I’m in agreement!

Andy Cooper 的头像
Andy Cooper2 年前

@arxiv @amylunt @LC_Mater_Design @MIF_UoL @erc_adam Cheers Ross. The toys are in the post.

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Pepe Marquez2 年前

@MolecularXtal @arxiv @amylunt @LC_Mater_Design @MIF_UoL @erc_adam This is super cool Andy! How do you organize and store the huge amount of data that you guys generate? Did you code your own database?

Andy Cooper 的头像
Andy Cooper2 年前

@MolecularXtal @arxiv @amylunt @LC_Mater_Design @MIF_UoL @erc_adam Thanks! This is a recent implementation so we don't (yet) have a huge amount of data, but there is the potential to generate it - and yes, we're looking at databases also to compare with predicted structures with @graeme_day in our @erc_adam project

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