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Cleaning Matters!
journal contribution
posted on 2019-10-07, 17:35 authored by Ahmed
Salaheldin Mahmoud, Doris SegetsTranslation of a
manual process to high throughput for research
and development requires special consideration. One important and
often unreported aspect is the establishment of an efficient cleaning
routine. This becomes significant, as precious time and, in particular,
material would be lost, that is, when low-quality high-throughput
experimentation is involved. We present a fully automated cleaning
routine of the challenging synthesis of cadmium selenide quantum dots.
Manual, semiautomated, and fully automated cleaning protocols were
executed and compared in terms of spectral similarities of the synthesized
colloids. Only the fully automated protocol enabled true 24/7 operation.