Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

A nanomaterials discovery robot for the Darwinian evolution of shape programmable gold nanoparticles

  • Daniel Salley,
  • Graham Keenan,
  • Jonathan Grizou,
  • Abhishek Sharma,
  • Sergio Martín,
  • Leroy Cronin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16501-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The ability to discover and optimise the synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials has significant impact on various fields, from sensing to medicine. Here, the authors use a genetic algorithm to drive a robotic platform toward a pre-defined, spectroscopic goal in order to discover and optimise the conditions for several nanoparticle shapes.