Nature Communications (Jun 2020)
A nanomaterials discovery robot for the Darwinian evolution of shape programmable gold nanoparticles
Abstract
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.