SmartDope autonomous lab discovers best-in-class perovskite quantum dot in hours. It would have taken humans years

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-autonomous-lab-best-in-class-quantum-dot.html

"closed-loop operation flow reactors: self-driving labs automate quantum dot synthesis use extremely small amounts of chemicals for rapid synthesis experiments, updating machine learning model, and next-experiment selection... doped with specific impurities in targeted way, altering optical and physicochemical properties maximizing, for example, efficiency at converting UV into desired wavelength...  quantum yield 158%... electronic, photovoltaic devices and other photonic and optoelectronic devices"

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