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Microscale chemical factory.(TECHNOLOGY UPDATE)
High Performance Plastics, August, 2007
Since typical chemical syntheses take place in several reaction steps with various separation or purification steps in between, micro-chemistry has almost always been limited to one-step reactions or sequences of reactions requiring no purification between steps.
However, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now produced an integrated multiple-step microscale production line. Their process includes three reaction steps and two separation processes (one gas-liquid and one liquid-liquid separation). Because it is arranged in a microscale reaction network, it is even possible to configure this process so that related compounds can be simultaneously produced in parallel.
To fully exploit the potential of microscale reaction...
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