| Autor: |
S. Krishnadasan, R. J. C. Brown, A. J. deMello, J. C. deMello |
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Lab on a Chip; Oct2007, Vol. 7 Issue 11, p1434-1441, 8p |
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We describe an autonomous ‘black-box’ system for the controlled synthesis of fluorescent nanoparticles. The system uses a microfluidic reactor to carry out the synthesis and an in-line spectrometer to monitor the emission spectra of the emergent particles. The acquired data is fed into a control algorithm which reduces each spectrum to a scalar ‘dissatisfaction coefficient’ and then intelligently updates the reaction conditions in an effort to minimise this coefficient and so drive the system towards a desired goal. In the tests reported here, CdSe nanoparticles were prepared by separately injecting solutions of CdO and Se into the two inlets of a heated y-shaped microfluidic reactor. A noise-tolerant global search algorithm was then used to efficiently identify—without any human intervention—the injection rates and temperature that yielded the optimum intensity for a chosen emission wavelength. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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