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## The UJI is working on a smart platform to manufacture advanced materials on a large scale

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A research project of the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) of the Universitat Jaume I is laying the foundations for the implementation of an innovative intelligent platform designed to enable the scalable manufacture of all kinds of advanced materials. It is an initiative designed to provide a satisfactory response to a need of Valencian companies: to adjust their production to a demand for increasingly customised products, with shorter supply times and greater added value. The solution to guarantee the competitiveness of Valencian companies involves manufacturing products that provide new functionalities or the introduction of production systems that allow the aforementioned customisation. This is an IDIFEDERER project, awarded by the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana.

According to the project director, Professor Juan Bisquert, the new laboratory will be a collaborative hub for chemists, physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians, forming a unique interdisciplinary environment that will be part of the INAM. "The essential thing is to make a large, communicated system that allows robotisation and automation on a large scale, so that many versions of materials can be made", he argues. To get the most out of it, Bisquert explains, "you have to have machines working to understand the chemical characteristics and the interaction between external physical variables". In short, the aim is to set up a frontier science space with research of international impact that will lead to useful inventions "in contact with industry", combining advanced equipment, scientific talent and knowledge of industry.

The project has a large scientific team with specialists such as Víctor Sans, an expert in the development of advanced materials designed for processing with additive manufacturing (3D printing). In his opinion, the platform combines different teams and has "a good infrastructure, good ideas, funding and professionals to make it possible". This generates a progression that produces "bottlenecks that keep moving". Space is one of the key factors in this sense. According to Bisquert, "we are incorporating equipment valued at one million euros a year and right now we are promoting a new building financed by the UJI and the Generalitat Valenciana, which we hope to have by the end of 2023". Human resources are another decisive point: "You need people of the highest level because they have an impact on the reputation of the Institute and the University", says Sans.

The heart of the platform is a synthesis robot and it is combined with other equipment dedicated to carrying out measurements "to characterise the process by measuring what is happening at each moment", according to Víctor Sans. Thus, the synthesis robot combines different conditions and a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment takes the measurements, and both will be coordinated "so that everything has the best directionality, with machine learning algorithms that we will be incorporating". A fundamental detail is that the reactions take place in continuous flow, optimising scaling and thus facilitating transfer to industry.

With the robot, different combinations can be tested in record time through its programming, thus speeding up research: "It has been estimated that the time needed to carry out a development can be reduced by an order of magnitude with these platforms", says Sans. The results of the products obtained from the programmed reactions can be seen very quickly: "Our reactors are continuous flow, with many specifications and with some operations that are automated, so that what is introduced is regulated, and what comes out is measured and collected in a controlled way", adds Sans.

Some of the results sought with this platform are applications of catalytic materials for the valorisation of carbon dioxide (CO2) to transform it "into value-added products". Another option is the synthesis of semiconductors for solar cells, capable of transforming light into energy through materials with good properties, in line with the use of energy that will reduce dependence on solid fuels.

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