January 2019
- Picture of the Month
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.