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Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering

January 2019

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The image shows the construction of an automated dosage system (ADoS). © AD​/​BCI

January 2019 – Automated liquid handling and dosage systems for chemical screening platform

Exploring new chemical spaces for new reactions, catalysts and molecules is limited by error-prone and time-consuming manual work. Automated, microfluidic and drop-based screening platforms enable massive parallelization of chemical reactions and thus rapid screening of a wide variety of compounds. For this purpose, an automated liquid handling system is required to mix different reactants and dose them into a microreactor. A fully automated and customizable system based on an open source 3D printer design is being developed.