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
513. Robotic exploration of amino-acid functionalised molybdenum blue polyoxometalate nanoclusters
512. A programmable modular robot for the synthesis of molecular machines
511. Compression of Molybdenum Blue Polyoxometalate Cluster Rings
510. High-Nuclearity Polyoxometalate-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Oxidative Cleavage of C−C Bond
509. Breaking the Boundary of Gigantic Molybdenum Blue Clusters: From Half-Closed {Mo85} to {Mo172} Dimer
508. Operational considerations for approximating molecular assembly by Fourier transform mass spectrometry
507. Reaction blueprints and logical control flow for parallelized chiral synthesis in the Chemputer
506. Experimentally measured assemblyindices are required to determine the threshold for life
505. Algorithm-driven robotic discovery of polyoxometalate-scaffolding metal–organic frameworks
504. Reaction: Programmable chemputable click chemistry