Nick Warren
nwarren.bsky.social
Nick Warren
@nwarren.bsky.social
Professor of Sustainable Materials
University of Sheffield
Focussed on accelerating innovation in sustainable polymers by coupling the latest advances in chemistry and engineering.

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Peter Pittaway has developed a highly sophisticated platform which can generate multiple samples of polymer latex via free radical emulsion polymerization and also conduct Bayesian optimization campaigns to map the particle size achievable.
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Redirecting
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Stephen Knox, Kai Wu and Nazrul Islam's paper is one of the first examples of “many objective” optimization in chemistry. In this case, applied to a RAFT dispersion polymerization allowing simultaneous optimization of >5 critical parameters.
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Self-driving laboratory platform for many-objective self-optimisation of polymer nanoparticle synthesis with cloud-integrated machine learning and orthogonal online analytics
The application of artificial intelligence and machine learning is revolutionising the chemical industry, with the ability to automate and self-optimise reactions facilitating a step change in capabil...
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