Planar chromatography robots

A planar chromatography robot was proposed by Prosek in 1989. It consisted of a robotic arm (Figure 9) with 4 degrees of freedom on a rotating base. Its work envelope is composed of 4 tanks (1 for cleaning, 1 for development and 2 others for derivatization by dipping), a hot plate, a dryer, and a digital camera for the evaluation of the derivatized plate (28). An Apple He computer controls the whole system. 

Postaire, E.P.R. Delvordre, P. Sarbach, C. Automation and robotics in planar chromatography. In Handbook oflMn-Layer Chromatography 2nd Ed. Sherma, J., Fried, B., Eds. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 373-385. 

Delvorde, P., and Postaire, E. (1995). Automation and robotics in planar chromatography. 

The application of automation and robotics in planar chromatography has been discussed in a number of recent publications (Delvorde and Postaire, 1993 Post-aire et al., 1996 Buhlmann et al., 1994 Zieloff, 1995). Although various stages of the TLC process, such as multiple development, have been successfully automated, completely automated systems are not readily available. 

Planar chromatography will be examined under the mechanical and automation aspect of reproducing human task for each step of the method. The link between these steps is found in robotics, and requires a complex infrastructure between existing instruments. 

The separate chapter on photographic documentation of thin-layer chromatograms in the first edition (Chapter 9) has been eliminated and the subject is now covered in Chapter 8 ( Detection, Identification, and Documentation by K.-A. Kovar and Gerda E. Morlock). A new chapter titled Automation and Robotics in Planar Chromatography by Eric P. R. Postaire, Pascal Delvordre, and Christian Sarbach (Chapter 14) has been added. A chapter on polymers and oligomers was not included in this edition because of a lack of sufficient new information on this topic. 

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Source From Automation of thin layer chromatography with a laboratory robot, in J. Planar. Chromatogr. Copyright Research Institute for Medicinal Plants, Hungary, 2004. 

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