Issue 4, 2022

A self-driving laboratory designed to accelerate the discovery of adhesive materials

Abstract

We report a self-driving laboratory for adhesive material optimization. This autonomous laboratory combines a robot for preparing and testing adhesive bonds with a Bayesian optimizer to rapidly improve adhesive formulations. This system uses a single robot to perform a complex sequence of eight tasks including surface preparation, test specimen assembly, and bond strength evaluation. To enable automated strength testing, we developed an automated pull test method that correlates linearly with a single-lap-joint shear test method. This work demonstrates how flexible automation accelerates complex, multi-step experimental workflows for which commercial automation solutions are not available.

Graphical abstract: A self-driving laboratory designed to accelerate the discovery of adhesive materials

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 apr 2022
Accepted
28 may 2022
First published
07 iyn 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Digital Discovery, 2022,1, 382-389

A self-driving laboratory designed to accelerate the discovery of adhesive materials

M. B. Rooney, B. P. MacLeod, R. Oldford, Z. J. Thompson, K. L. White, J. Tungjunyatham, B. J. Stankiewicz and C. P. Berlinguette, Digital Discovery, 2022, 1, 382 DOI: 10.1039/D2DD00029F

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