High throughput robotics score big in hunt for new porous liquids

An image showing a high-throughput synthesis apparatus

Source: © Rebecca Greenaway/University of Liverpool

Materials research borrows technique from drug discovery

Scientists have deployed high throughput techniques traditionally used in drug discovery to double the number of porous liquids that have been characterised. Their pool of new porous liquids includes materials with higher gas uptake and use greener solvents than those previously reported.