Cronin's first stab was a 2012 paper in Nature Chemistry in which he and his colleagues described something he called reactionware, 3D - printed
chemical reaction vessels containing catalysts and other components needed to carry out specific reactions inside.
Not exact matches
In today's issue of Science, Cronin and his colleagues report printing a series of interconnected
reaction vessels that carry out four different
chemical reactions involving 12 separate steps, from filtering to evaporating different solutions.
An unlikely
vessel could shuttle drops of water around microfluidic devices, giving fine control over
chemical reactions
With their
chemical collection, the researchers could then start fishing: to find out if a target protein would be caught on one of the «fish hooks,» the researchers put the collection of all 35 million compounds in a
reaction vessel containing the protein on a carrier.
The borosilicate glass that forms most
chemical vessels is inert and hugely durable, so you can heat, cool and react the brews within knowing the glass won't explode, deform or interfere with the
reaction.
«It's a new class of material that can reconfigure itself, and it has the potential to be customized into liquid
reaction vessels for many uses, from
chemical synthesis to ion transport to catalysis,» Tom Russell, a visiting faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, said in a statement.
A 2014 study found that when the skin is exposed to sunlight, a
chemical reaction causes blood
vessels to widen and blood pressure to drop.
One theory holds that bacteria and viruses may cause this inflammation but clearly we know that lead, mercury, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and fluoride and other toxic
chemicals can also cause inflammatory
reactions in blood
vessels.
Performed weights, measuring and charging into
reaction vessels a variety of inorganic and organic
chemicals including acids, bases, salts, solvents and gases.