Radleys offers universal reactor workstations to graphene chemists

The following is a sponsored message by Radleys

UK-based manufacturer of productivity tools for Chemists Radleys is offering a universal reactor work station that is specifically attractive to Graphene chemists. The Reactor-Ready is a single reactor framework accommodating a range of vessel sizes which allows to save money and fumehood space. The easy-to-use Reactor-Ready systems offer vessels which are interchangeable in minutes, allowing cost effective scale-up from 100 ml to 5 L batches, without the significant investment associated with multiple traditional jacketed reactor systems.

When used in conjunction with AVA lab control software, Reactor-Ready offers many advantages to the process development and production of graphene:

• Safe, controlled additions with temperature feedback control loop. Automate liquid additions with set safety limits to temporarily halt additions as the reactor temperature rises, and resume once a safe value is reached. Safely control exothermic reactions, with temperature feedback and active cooling.
• Improve reproducibility and consistency. Easily run, record and repeat experiments. Share experiments and results between users to facilitate collaboration.
• Improve safety. Use Safe Settings to add alarms, shutdown and safe ‘go-to value’ setpoints.
• Improve productivity. Run unattended chemistry 24 hours a day with automated data logging. Set temperature control steps and ramps of any length.

When a research group at Imperial College London wanted to scale up graphene production, they chose Reactor-Ready and AVA software to enable careful temperature control of an exothermic reaction and controlled liquid additions. The researchers at ICL could originally only produce small quantities of graphene, using a small round bottomed flask - with no temperature control. When they needed to synthesise larger amounts of graphene for testing, they acquired a Reactor-Ready Duo linked to a Huber 405 thermoregulator and a peristaltic pump and balance. AVA Software Level 4 was supplied to control the set-up and enable automatic gravimetric additions to be made. This allowed the group to safely scale-up the production of graphene keeping the temperature under control while safely making controlled liquid additions.

For more information on Reactor Ready including key features, video and case studies, see here. You can also contact Radleys' directly at sales@radleys.co.uk or +44 1799 513320, or via Live Chat on the website.

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