AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series

We are delighted to welcome you to the first talks in the AIchemy Hub’s monthly webinar series.

Speakers: 

Prof Anna Slater – Automation and Flow: Opportunities for Supramolecular Chemists

Annabel Basford – Streamlining the discovery of porous organic cages

Professor Anna Slater will explore how continuous flow chemistry and automation can drive advancements in supramolecular chemistry and materials science. The talk will demonstrate how expertise in organic chemistry and non-covalent interactions can be used to fine-tune self-assembled materials for cutting-edge applications. Ideal for flow chemists, materials scientists, and anyone interested in the future of material discovery.

Annabel Basford will present a streamlined hybrid workflow that combines low-cost automated high-throughput experimentation, automated data analysis for turbidity using computer vision, 1H NMR spectroscopy for conversion, and mass spectrometry for topology identification, complemented with high-throughput computational modelling of cage structures and to predict shape-persistence. This is combined into a cage database analysis tool – cagey – to accelerate the discovery process of one particular subclass of molecular organic materials, porous organic cages. This work highlights the advantages of combining these approaches for large-scale data curation towards an accessible data-driven materials discovery approach.

Following the presentations, there will be time for questions from the audience.