How can we exercise precise control over matter?
What would chemistry look like if it was re-formulated using today’s tools and techniques?
New reaction media
Chemical reactions happen in all sorts of places in nature? Why constrain ourselves to the round bottom flask?
High bandwidth analytical methods
How much raw information can we extract from a single experiment?
Probabilistic methods
It may be hard to reach a definitive conclusion from a single observation, but what about millions?
Languages and automation
Can chemistry experiments be defined by computer code?
Publications
2024
- Micron-sized soft chemical reactors synthesized via the aerosol phase
Zhang, L.; Mehr, S. H. M. ChemRxiv, 2024 - Investigating and Quantifying Molecular Complexity Using Assembly Theory and Spectroscopy
Jirasek, M; Sharma, A; Bame, J. R.; Mehr, S. H. M.; et al ACS Cent. Sci., 2024 - Evidence of Selection in Mineral Mediated Polymerization Reactions Executed in a Robotic Chemputer System
Asche, S.; Pow, R.; Mehr, H.; Cooper, G.; Sharma, A.; Cronin, L., ChemSystemsChem, 2024 - An integrated self-optimizing programmable chemical synthesis and reaction engine
Leonov, A. I.; Hammer, A. J. S.; Lach, S.; Mehr, S. H. M.; et al Nat. Comm., 2024, 15, 1240
2023
- Detection of Micron-Sized Chemical Droplets Using a Commodity Digital Camera Setup
Jiang, H.; Mehr, S. H. M. ChemRxiv, 2023 - Digitizing chemical discovery with a Bayesian explorer for interpreting reactivity data
Mehr, S. H. M.; Caramelli, D., Cronin, L. PNAS, 2023, 120 - Automated Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Complex Forensic Drug Samples using 1H NMR
Mehr, S. H. M.; Tang, A. W.; Laing, R. R. Magn. Reson. Chem., 2023, 61, 95–105
2022
- Digitization and validation of a chemical synthesis literature database in the ChemPU
Rohrbach, S.; Šiaučiulis, M.; Chisholm, G.; Pirvan, P.-A.; Saleeb, M.; Mehr, S. H. M.; Trushina, E.; et al. Science, 2022, 377, 172–180