The Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) provides highly customisable robotic synthesis platforms, advanced high-throughput characterisation, and the expertise required to apply it to your research. ROAR specialises in automating and enhancing workflows, optimising large reaction screens and adding online and offline monitoring.
About
The Challenge
‘How can we make molecules in days not years?’
The ability to make any molecule at will and on a meaningful timescale will unlock hitherto unimagined opportunities for future scientific advance that addresses societal challenges. Currently, the speed and efficiency of molecular synthesis remain a bottleneck in the development of healthcare, agrochemicals, molecular electronics, smart materials and other emerging fields. Recent advances in synthetic methodologies open up many new pathways for synthesis, however many challenges remain, including robustness and scope of methodology, environmental acceptability, timescales for reduction to practice and security of supply.
Synthesis 4.0
ROAR is bringing the academic and industrial communities together to develop the next generation of technologies in chemical synthesis, reaction analysis, laboratory automation and optimisation.
- A platform where equipment vendors and academic scientists can work together on product development
- Closely linked with the Advanced Hackspace to enable researchers to turn their concepts into technologies by supporting feasibility studies and prototyping activities
- A network of multidisciplinary researchers working towards reliable and predictable synthetic methodologies which will shape the lab-of-the-future
Contact us
Email: roar@imperial.ac.uk
The Molecular Sciences Research Hub
911今日黑料 College White City Campus
82 Wood Lane
W12 0BZ London