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Self-driving laboratory for accelerated discovery of thin-film materials
Benjamin P. MacLeod, Fraser G. L. Parlane, Thomas D. Morrissey, Florian Häse, Loïc M. Roch, Kevan E. Dettelbach, Raphaell Moreira, Lars P. E. Yunker, Michael B. Rooney, Joseph R. Deeth, Veronica Lai, Gordon J. Ng, Henry Situ, Ray H. Zhang, Michael S. Elliott, Ted H. Haley, David J. Dvorak, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Jason E. Hein, Curtis P. Berlinguette
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Discovering and optimizing commercially viable materials for clean energy applications typically takes over a decade. Self-driving laboratories that iteratively design, execute, and learn from material science experiments in a fully autonomous loop present an opportunity to accelerate this research. We report here a modular robotic platform driven by a model-based optimization algorithm capable of autonomously optimizing the optical and electronic properties of thin-film materials by modifying the film composition and processing conditions. We demonstrate this platform by using it to maximize the hole mobility of organic hole transport materials commonly used in perovskite solar cells and consumer electronics. This demonstration highlights the possibilities of using autonomous laboratories to discover organic and inorganic materials relevant to materials sciences and clean energy technologies.
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