Autonomous polymer synthesis delivered by multi-objective closed-loop optimisation
Stephen T. Knox, Sam J. Parkinson, Clarissa. Y. P. Wilding, Richard A. Bourne, Nicholas J. Warren
Abstract
An artificially intelligent flow-reactor platform equipped with online NMR and GPC enables autonomous polymerisation optimisation utilising a machine learning algorithm to map the trade-off between monomer conversion and dispersity.
Topics & Concepts
DispersityMonomerLoop (graph theory)PolymerPolymerizationComputer scienceFlow (mathematics)Process engineeringClosed loopMaterials scienceChemical engineeringPolymer chemistryControl engineeringEngineeringMathematicsMechanicsComposite materialPhysicsCombinatoricsInnovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques InnovationAdvanced Polymer Synthesis and CharacterizationMachine Learning in Materials Science