Issue 2, 2023

Design and simulation of a uniform irradiance photochemical platform

Abstract

The growth of photochemistry and high throughput experimentation in well plates and flow drives interest in photochemical platforms that provide spatially uniform irradiation of reactions. Here, we present a design of a versatile, uniform light platform for photochemistry to enable increased performance and reproducibility for high throughput experimentation in shallow well plates, in-plane flow reactors, and droplets. The design of the platform is driven by the development of an open-source ray tracing light simulation package. Radiometry provides experimental validation of the system's irradiance and irradiance uniformity. The usefulness of the approach is demonstrated by application to the photoinduced electron transfer–reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization of methyl acrylate.

Graphical abstract: Design and simulation of a uniform irradiance photochemical platform

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Aug 2022
Accepted
06 Nov 2022
First published
07 Nov 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

React. Chem. Eng., 2023,8, 416-423

Design and simulation of a uniform irradiance photochemical platform

D. J. Walsh, T. N. Schneider, B. D. Olsen and K. F. Jensen, React. Chem. Eng., 2023, 8, 416 DOI: 10.1039/D2RE00329E

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