Robotic pendant drop: containerless liquid for μs-resolved, AI-executable XPCS

Ozgulbas, Doga Yamac; Jensen, Jr., Don; Butler, Rory; Vescovi, Rafael; Foster, Ian T.; Irvin, Michael; Nakaye, Yasukazu; Chu, Miaoqi; Dufresne, Eric M.; Seifert, Soenke; Babnigg, Gyorgy; Ramanathan, Arvind; Zhang, Qingteng

doi:10.1038/s41377-023-01233-z

Title: Robotic pendant drop: containerless liquid for μs-resolved, AI-executable XPCS

Journal Article · 18 August 2023 · Light, Science & Applications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01233-z · OSTI ID:1995837

^[1]; Jensen, Jr., Don ^[1]; Butler, Rory ^[2]; Vescovi, Rafael ^[1];

^[1]; Irvin, Michael ^[1]; Nakaye, Yasukazu ^[3];

^[1]; Dufresne, Eric M. ^[1]; Seifert, Soenke ^[1]; Babnigg, Gyorgy ^[1]; Ramanathan, Arvind ^[1];

^[1]

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Rigaku Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)

The dynamics and structure of mixed phases in a complex fluid can significantly impact its material properties, such as viscoelasticity. Small-angle X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (SA-XPCS) can probe the spontaneous spatial fluctuations of the mixed phases under various in situ environments over wide spatiotemporal ranges (10^–6–10³ s /10^–10–10^–6 m). Tailored material design, however, requires searching through a massive number of sample compositions and experimental parameters, which is beyond the bandwidth of the current coherent X-ray beamline. Using 3.7-μs-resolved XPCS synchronized with the clock frequency at the Advanced Photon Source, we demonstrated the consistency between the Brownian dynamics of ~100 nm diameter colloidal silica nanoparticles measured from an enclosed pendant drop and a sealed capillary. The electronic pipette can also be mounted on a robotic arm to access different stock solutions and create complex fluids with highly-repeatable and precisely controlled composition profiles. This closed-loop, AI-executable protocol is applicable to light scattering techniques regardless of the light wavelength and optical coherence, and is a first step towards high-throughput, autonomous material discovery.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1995837

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2406038

Journal Information:: Light, Science & Applications, Vol. 12, Issue 1; ISSN 2047-7538

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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