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
520. Rapid Exploration of the Assembly Chemical Space of Molecular Graphs
519. Programmable Microwaveable Chemistry in the Chemputer
518. Utilizing Similarity Measures to Map Chemical Reactivity
517. Automated Digital Discovery and Synthesis of CuO-Based Nanoparticle Heterostructures for Catalysis
516. Universal peptide synthesis via solid-phase methods fused with chemputation
515. Regulating the Assembly of γ-Cyclodextrin Host and Polyoxometalate-Based Guests toward Light-Responsive Hybrid Rotaxanes
514. Natural-Language-Interfaced Robotic Synthesis for AI-Copilot-Assisted Exploration of Inorganic Materials
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