Self-driving laboratories for chemistry and materials science

G Tom, SP Schmid, SG Baird, Y Cao, K Darvish… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise an accelerated application of the scientific method.
Through the automation of experimental workflows, along with autonomous experimental …

Modern automated sample preparation for the determination of organic compounds: A review on robotic and on-flow systems

DAV Medina, EVS Maciel, FM Lanças - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sample preparation is crucial for reliable and confident analytical methods, ensuring
selective enrichment, clean-up, and removal of matrix interferents. However, it often involves …

Automation in the life science research laboratory

I Holland, JA Davies - Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Protocols in the academic life science laboratory are heavily reliant on the manual
manipulation of tools, reagents and instruments by a host of research staff and students. In …

Engineering a Sustainable Future: Harnessing Automation, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence with Self-Driving Laboratories

S Sadeghi, RB Canty, N Mukhin, J Xu… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The accelerating depletion of natural resources undoubtedly demands a radical
reevaluation of research practices addressing the escalating climate crisis. From traditional …

Bimetallic nanozyme–bioenzyme hybrid material-mediated ultrasensitive and automatic immunoassay for the detection of aflatoxin B1 in food

Y Zhao, X Wang, S Pan, F Hong, P Lu, X Hu… - Biosensors and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Aflatoxin B 1 (AFB 1) is one of the most prevalent and dangerous biotoxin in crops
and feedstuff, which poses a great threat to human health and also cause significant …

Physical laboratory automation in synthetic biology

A Stephenson, L Lastra, B Nguyen, YJ Chen… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Synthetic Biology has overcome many of the early challenges facing the field and is entering
a systems era characterized by adoption of Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) approaches …

A droplet robotic system enabled by electret-induced polarization on droplet

R Zhang, C Zhang, X Fan, CCK Au Yeung, H Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Robotics for scientific research are evolving from grasping macro-scale solid materials to
directly actuating micro-scale liquid samples. However, current liquid actuation mechanisms …

Low-cost and open-source strategies for chemical separations

JJ Davis, SW Foster, JP Grinias - Journal of Chromatography A, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, a trend toward utilizing open access resources for laboratory research has
begun. Open-source design strategies for scientific hardware rely upon the use of widely …

Digital pipette: open hardware for liquid transfer in self-driving laboratories

N Yoshikawa, K Darvish, MG Vakili, A Garg… - Digital …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-driving laboratories are being investigated as a potential means to accelerate the
material discovery process. Accurate liquid handling is an essential operation in the context …

An open-source, 3D printed inkjet DNA synthesizer

J Kim, H Kim, D Bang - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic oligonucleotides have become a fundamental tool in a wide range of biological
fields, including synthetic biology, biosensing, and DNA storage. Reliable access to …