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Empowering Tomorrow's Chemist Laboratory Automation and Accelerated Synthesis: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Empowering Tomorrow's Chemist Laboratory Automation and Accelerated Synthesis: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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POINT-COUNTERPOINT: WHAT WILL THE FUTURE OF CHEMICAL LABORATORY AUTOMATION MEAN FOR SOCIETY? Martin Burke from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Nicola Pohl from Indiana University Bloomington opened the workshop with a discussion about the promise and challenges presented by developments in laboratory automation and implications for the future.
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Untold numbers of people who may have groundbreaking, innovative ideas are not engaged in the chemical sciences because of barriers in the education system. For example, organic chemistry courses may tend to "weed out" students, but automation of chemical syntheses could lower barriers and bring additional promising minds into the field.
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Dreher remarked that academics with innovative ideas often face challenges obtaining funding from industries. Wang noted that academics attempting to prove technology is worth the investment to industry could provide highly persuasive data.
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ROAR utilizes robots, flow chemistry platforms, and high throughput experimentation reaction sets, and sponsors a program to train post-graduate students in next-generation synthesis and reaction technology. Rachel Switzky from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign works with data scientists, AI engineers, and chemists in multidisciplinary, collaborative projects using a process of design thinking, a method of locating and engaging relevant experts in the development of various applications.
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He remarked that undergraduate education is broadly organized as a buffet of courses, with limited administrator interest in introducing automation into curricula; however, helping students build fundamental knowledge in instrumentation, including setting up systems and data analysis, could have a high impact. Switzky is building an ecosystem of tools, including a digital molecule maker, for use by learners at the K–12 and undergraduate levels; the molecule maker is being piloted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for implementation in undergraduate courses.
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This endeavor could benefit from collaboration, not only with data scientists and machine learning experts but also with students who have been exposed to automation concepts. Cronin observed that, over the next decade, academia may be forced to eliminate some of the fundamentals currently taught in schools to adjust to innovations in automation; furthermore, some cultural traditions in laboratory work may be replaced with the use of more advanced analytical tools as they become available.
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The report-outs from the breakout sessions are summarized below. Breakout Session 1: Out of the Box: Providing the Tools and Resources Needed to Prepare Undergraduates for Automation Arsalan Mirjafari from Florida Gulf Coast University introduced the first breakout group.
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The resulting automated workflows enable rapid screening; through the use of calculations based on density functional theory; for example, an approach that usually takes approximately 13 hours can be finished in approximately 15 minutes. He described one platform called Molecular Accelerated Discovery of Novelty-Enabled Systems, which is being used to identify a new molecular class: solid-state organic lasers.
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Rebecca Doerge from CMU presented on its Cloud Lab, which is an automated, remote-controlled laboratory capable of handling all aspects of daily laboratory work, from experimental design, data acquisition, and analysis, to sample production. Expected to be fully operational in fall 2022, the laboratory aims to help democratize science by offering researchers the ability to remotely access a fully automated laboratory that uses state-of-the-art technology and machine learning to iteratively optimize processes.
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The statements recorded here are those of the individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all participants, the planning committee, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable, or the National Academies. REVIEWERS: To ensure that this Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity, it was reviewed in draft form by Anne LaPointe, Cornell University, and Arsalan Mirjafari, Florida Gulf Coast University.
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