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Swiss CAT+, a Data-driven Infrastructure for Accelerated Catalysts Discovery and Optimization

July 18, 2023
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CHIMIA

The Catalysis Hub – Swiss CAT+, is a new infrastructure project funded by the ETH Domain, co-headed by EPFL and ETHZ. It offers the scientific community a unique integrated technology platform combining automated and high-throughput experimentation with advanced computational data analysis to accelerate the discoveries in the field of sustainable catalytic technologies. Divided into two hubs of expertise, homogeneous catalysis at EPFL and heterogeneous catalysis at ETHZ, the platform is open to academic and private research groups. Following a multi-year investment plan, both hubs have acquired and developed several high-end robotic platforms devoted to the synthesis, characterization, and testing of large numbers of molecular and solid catalysts. The hardware is associated with a fully digitalized experimental workflow and a specific data management strategy to support closed-loop experimentation and advanced computational data analysis.

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Swiss CAT+, a Data-driven Infrastructure for Accelerated Catalysts Discovery and Optimization

Paco Laveille a, Pascal Miéville b, Sourav Chatterjee a, Elisa Clerc b, Jean-Charles Cousty b, Florian de Nanteuil b, Erwin Lam a, Edy Mariano b, Adrian Ramirez a, Urielle Randrianarisoa b, Keyan Villat b, Christophe Copéret a, and Nicolai Cramer b

a. Swiss CAT+ East Hub, ETHZ, CH-8093 Zurich
b. Swiss CAT+ West Hub, station 6, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2023.154

For more information about the used Chemspeed solutions:

FLEX SWILE for Catalyst Screening
FLEX ISYNTH for Library Synthesis (Small Scale)
ISYNTH CATSCREEN96
ISYNTH SPEEDCHEM
FLEX AUTOPLANT
AUTOPLANT PRORES
FLEX ISYNTH for High-Throughput Catalyst Preparation
ISYNTH CATIMPREG
AUTOPLANT PRECIP
AUTOPLANT ZEO

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