🚀 🤖 Today, we unveiled Fast-Cat: A Self-Driving Lab for Accelerated Catalyst Development in Nature Chemical Engineering! Fast-Cat is turbocharging catalyst development with its autonomous, high-pressure/high-temperature reaction capabilities! Eastman Chemical Co. NC State University NC State News NC State Engineering

🐈🤖🧪Learn more about Fast-Cat: news.ncsu.edu/2024/02/ai-dri…

Visiting Barcelona is always a delight! The vibrant culture, stunning architecture, delicious cuisine, and lively atmosphere make it an unforgettable experience every time! #MATSUS24

Check out this excellent research briefing of Fast-Cat prepared in collaboration with the Nature Chem. Eng. editorial team: nature.com/articles/s4428… NC State News Nature Chemical Engineering NC State Engineering

“That’s why we created Fast-Cat. We’re now able to better understand how a specific ligand performs in five days than was previously possible in six months.” — Milad Abolhasani Learn more about AI-driven labs at go.ncsu.edu/d7kkz10

Interested in automation and self-driving labs? See some of our early free-to-access content! SAMPLE, protein engineering: nature.com/articles/s4428… Fast-Cat, Pareto-front mapping: nature.com/articles/s4428… Schlenkputer, highly reactive chemistry: nature.com/articles/s4428…

Now online: News & Views on the Article by Yan Wang, Wenhao Sun & co-authors Umich MSE nature.com/articles/s4416… Robotic synthesis decoded through phase diagram mastery by Jeffrey Bennett & Milad Abolhasani Abolhasani Lab nature.com/articles/s4416… ($)

1st meeting of #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories, cosponsored by RCSA, Beckman Foundation, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and Walder Foundation, ends today with proposals to accelerate innovation in basic research through advances in automated instrumentation & AI.

Had a great time attending the ACL Scialog Research Corporation for Science Advancement meeting last week! Interesting discussions about the future of lab automation in chemical sciences. We need more low cost and ‘reproducible’ automation technologies for ‘real’ chemistry.

It was great to participate as a panelist at the The White House Roundtable on the Semiconductor Materials Accelerator, particularly discussing autonomous labs and accelerated materials discovery under the #CHIPS and Science Act.

🚀🎉 Time flies! Seven years ago, in January 2017, the first two PhD students of my group, Jeff and Robbie, came on board. Now, seven years later, we are celebrating a group milestone as I've been promoted to Full Professor!

In November 2023, a paper was published in Nature reporting the discovery of over 40 novel materials using an autonomous laboratory guided by AI. However, researchers were quick to question the autonomous lab’s results. chemistryworld.com/news/are-we-ru…

Congratulations to Prof. Milad Abolhasani!! Abolhasani Lab Associate Professor and University Faculty Scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng. NC State University is the 2024 CRE division Early Career Investigator awardee, in honor of Dr. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

#Accelerate Conference early bird registration ends June 26th! Join us at University of British Columbia Aug 6-9 to learn from leaders in advanced material discovery including Adam Gormley of Rutgers University, Milad Abolhasani of NC State University, Melodie Christensen of #Merck and more. Register: accelerate24.ca/registration

A new N&V on the Article by del Rio Chanona & co-workers: nature.com/articles/s4428… "Machine-learning optimization of 3D-printed flow-reactor geometry" by Bennett and Abolhasani. Abolhasani Lab Link here ($): nature.com/articles/s4428… ➡️ Free read link: rdcu.be/dP9kW

Another throwback! In our March issue, Milad Abolhasani & co-workers report on a self-driving catalysis laboratory for autonomous reaction Pareto-front mapping. Abolhasani Lab Free link: nature.com/articles/s4428…