Research in the Cronin Group is motivated by the fascination for complex chemical systems, and the desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks.
An article on vice.com has been published describing recent Cronin Group work in generating random numbers through crystallisation. In this work, Prof Cronin and his group designed a crystallisation robot, with a webcam to observe the crystallisation process. The resulting observations were then used to generate random numbers, which proved to be more effective than pseudo random numbers when used to encrypt strings.
The research was published in Matter, and is available open access on the publication website.
Prof Leroy (Lee) Cronin Regius Chair of Chemistry Advanced Research Centre (ARC) Level 5, Digital Chemistry University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Tel: +44 141 330 6650 Email: lee.cronin@glasgow.ac.uk
536. Quantifying Directedness in Chemical Reaction Networks Using Assembly Theory
535. Molecular assembly as a universal biosignature measurable by mass spectrometry
534. Dimensional Evolution from a Giant Molybdenum-Red Cage-like {Mo200} to 1D Chains Enabling Ultrahigh Proton Conduction
533. Expanding polyoxopalladate diversity: Ce4+-containing structures and chiral lanthanide clusters
532. Mapping Evolution of Molecules across Biochemistry with Assembly Theory
531. Chemputer and chemputation—A universal chemical compound synthesis machine
530. Verification and execution of the scientific literature via chemputation augmented by large language models
529. Chemical programming of kinase inhibitors in a modular chemputer-based system
528. Organophosphonate Ligation Approach for the Controlled Assembly of Gigantic Polyoxometalate Clusters
527. Spontaneous assemblies of gigantic polyoxomolybdates; from structure and properties to synthetic methods