December 2021
The Graduate Textbook on Flow Chemistry has been updated with a second edition. This two-volume series gives readers a foundation in all aspects of flow chemistry, from the theoretical principles, to practical aspects of running flow reactors, including examples of applications. Prof. Hii and Dr Deadman contributed their flow chemistry expertise to completely revise chapter 3 of volume 1, covering an overview of the technologies in flow chemistry devices. This book series is highly recommended to anyone looking to learn more about this exciting field.
05th October 2020
31st July 2020
ROAR has received the LEAF 2020 Bronze award, in recognition of the actions undertaken to improve sustainability practices as part of the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) in the 2019-20 academic year.
8th June 2020
ROAR and the department of chemistry are reopening after COVID-19 lockdown, with limited access. According to the departmental guidelines, ROAR will be open every week Monday to Thursday, following the cohort model (Ben Deadman, Facility Manager, cohort 1; Paola Ferrini, Research Scientist, and Elena Sanna, Research Associate, cohort 2).
Only trained users from the department of chemistry will be allowed in ROAR at this stage. Training material for untrained users is being developed. Projects from users from other departments and external users are currently on hold until further notice.
19th March 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the physical ROAR facility is currently closed until further notice. The ROAR team are all fit and well and we are looking forward to using this period of home-working to help you plan some cool experiments when we reopen the lab. We are also actively developing and collecting online resources to support our user community. Please check our website and Twitter feeds to see the latest materials, and let us know if there are further resources you think would be helpful for our community.
17th March 2020
On 17th March, our team presented ROAR in a webinar on c&en and sponsored by UnchainedLabs. The webinar focussed on underlying current limitations in experimental data and how high-throughput experimentation and automation can help overcome them. Additionally, making use of a case study developed in ROAR, we highlighted some important aspects that should be considered when running high-throughput reactions. If you missed it, you can listen to the presentation on demand here.
9th - 10th March 2020
In March Ben made an appearance at the AI for Reaction Outcome & Synthetic Route Prediction 2020 Conference, at Tortworth, to present a ROAR case study. This event by the AI3 Science Discovery Network+ was a great showcase of the latest developments in reaction prediction tools.
21st - 22nd January 2020
In January the ROAR Roadshow went to the University of Leeds, and the University of Loughborough. Ben presented the facility and some case studies at departmental seminars, and had numerous meetings with research teams to develop ROAR access proposals. We are currently developing a virtual version of the Roadshow so watch this space!
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