War and Peace: “Chemputer” Produces Tailor-Made Medicine

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Initially, it was not about drones or aircraft components at all: At first, the team around Cronin had customised medicaments from the Chemputer in mind. The idea was to enable simple recipes like say Ibuprofen to synthesize themselves on-site for the patient as quasi customised products.

In fact, the most frequently used medicaments consist mostly of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen as well as a few comparatively price-effective organic agents such as oils or paraffin.

BAE Plans to 'Grow' Drones

Enter BAE: The defence group with headquarters in London sees the “future of military aircraft production” in the technology. Thus it should be possible to 'grow' drones and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, unmanned aeroplanes) fast and on-site quasi in-vitro.

Professor Cronin is in any case confident about his new partners: “This is a very exciting time in the development of chemistry”, explained Cronin during the presentation of the BAE concept. “. We have been developing routes to digitize synthetic and materials chemistry and at some point in the future hope to assemble complex objects in a machine from the bottom up, or with minimal human assistance. Creating small aircraft would be very challenging but I’m confident that creative thinking and convergent digital technologies will eventually lead to the digital programming of complex chemical and material systems.”

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