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
529. Chemputer and chemputation—A universal chemical compound synthesis machine
528. Verification and execution of the scientific literature via chemputation augmented by large language models
527. Chemical programming of kinase inhibitors in a modular chemputer-based system
526. Organophosphonate Ligation Approach for the Controlled Assembly of Gigantic Polyoxometalate Clusters
525. Spontaneous assemblies of gigantic polyoxomolybdates; from structure and properties to synthetic methods
524. ElectroChemputer with integrated monitoring for programmable electrochemistry
523. Achieving Operational Universality through a Turing Complete Chemputer
522. AI-driven robotic crystal explorer for rapid polymorph identification
521. Rapid Exploration of the Assembly Chemical Space of Molecular Graphs
520. Programmable Microwaveable Chemistry in the Chemputer