Video: 3D-printed chemistry
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First, print your equipment
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How to print your own chemicals
Editorial: “Chemical 3D printing takes apps beyond the digital“
Computers used to be just for programmers, but these days most people own at least one. Now a similar revolution in access to drugs and other chemicals could be on the cards.
A team of researchers led by chemist Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow, UK, has made a selection of chemicals using a digital blueprint and a 3D printer costing $2000. The printer prints the lab equipment and then squirts the ingredients…