2025
Cooper Group publications from 2025.
Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges
Andrew I Cooper, Patrick Courtney, Kourosh Darvish, Moritz Eckhoff, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Andrea Gabrielli, Animesh Garg, Sami Haddadin, Kanako Harada, Jason Hein, Maria Hübner, Dennis Knobbe, Gabriella Pizzuto, Florian Shkurti, Ruja Shrestha, Kerstin Thurow, Rafael Vescovi, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Ádám Wolf, Naruki Yoshikawa, Yan Zeng, Zhengxue Zhou, Henning Zwirnmann
Sci. Robot., 2025, 10, eadv7932
Accelerated Porosity Screening Using a Multichannel Colorimetric Array
Yushu Han, Isaiah Borne, Biplab Dutta, Rob Clowes, Hang Qu, Alex James, Charlotte E Boott, Marc A Little, Andrew I Cooper
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202510400
An Open-Source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces
Francisco Munguia-Galeano, Louis Longley, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Zhengxue Zhou, Rob Clowes, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Andrew I Cooper
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2025, 461-474
Unraveling the mechanisms of charge-separation in a dibenzo [b, d] thiophene sulfone polymer photocatalyst using time-resolved electronic absorption spectroscopy
Richard J Lyons, Ewan McQueen, Rhys J Bourhill, Owen Thwaites, Andrew I Cooper, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Alexander J Cowan, Adrian M Gardner
J. Chem. Phys., 2025, 163(4), 044706
Bottom-up computational design of shape-selective organic macrocycles for humid CO2 capture
Tao Liu, Hang Qu, Sam D Harding, Isaiah Borne, Linjiang Chen, John W Ward, Simon C Weston, Andrew I Cooper
Nat. Chem.,2025,
Selective CO2 Adsorption in Ultrahydrophobic Molecular Pyrene Frameworks by Computational Design
Sam D Harding, Tao Liu, Linjiang Chen, Siyuan Yang, Isaiah Borne, Thomas Fellowes, Aaron W Peters, Simon C Weston, John W Ward, Andrew I Cooper
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2025, 147, 26, 23160
A universal foundation model for transfer learning in molecular crystals
Minggao Feng, Chengxi Zhao, Graeme M Day, Xenophon Evangelopoulos, Andrew I Cooper
Chem. Sci., 2025,16, 12844
Computer vision for polymer characterisation using lasers
Seda Uyanik, Sam Parkinson, George Killick, Biplab Dutta, Rob Clowes, Charlotte E Boott, Andrew I Cooper
Digital Discovery, 2025
Base-mediated exfoliation of quinoline-linked covalent organic frameworks for heavy metal ion adsorption
Yongjie Xu, Yang Liu, Xue Wang, Haofan Yang, Peiying Wang, Weiwei Zhang, John W Ward, Andrew I Cooper
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025,13, 27524
Construction of an organic cage-based porous ionic liquid using an aminal tying strategy
Aiting Kai, Austin Mroz, Kim E Jelfs, Andrew I Cooper, Marc A Little, Rebecca L Greenaway
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2025,10, 459
Sensing connections in automation, control and robotics
Ali Mesbah, Robert Wood, Wei Gao, Timothy Noël, Andrew I Cooper, Dawn Tilbury, S Joe Qin
Nat. Chem.Eng., 2025, 2(5), 281
GenCo: A Dual VLM Generate-Correct Framework for Adaptive Peg-in-Hole Robotics
Zhengxue Zhou, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Seda Uyanik, Andrew I Cooper
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 16744-1675
Porous organic cages for quantum sieving
Andrew I Cooper, Ming Liu, Marc A Little, Linjiang Chen
US Patent, 12,214,314
Influence of methyl substitution on linear diboronic acids: toward spiroborate covalent organic framework formation in N,N-diethylformamide
Xue Wang, Qiang Zhu, Hang Qu, Xiang Zhou, Mounib Bahri, Bowen Liu, Thomas Fellowes, Rob Clowes, Hongjun Niu, Nigel D. Browning and Andrew I. Coope
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 19374
Nonmetal Organic Frameworks Exhibit High Proton Conductivity.
Megan O’Shaughnessy, Jungwoo Lim, Joseph Glover, Alex R. Neale, Graeme M. Day, Laurence J. Hardwick and Andrew I. Cooper
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 15429
High-throughput robotic colourimetric titrations using computer vision
Yuan Li, Biplab Dutta, Qi Jie Yeow, Rob Clowes, Charlotte E. Boott and Andrew I. Cooper
Digital Discovery, 2025, 4, 1276
A machine learned potential for investigating single crystal to single crystal transformations in complex organic molecular systems
Chengxi Zhao, Honglai Liu, Da-Hui Qu, Andrew I. Cooper and Linjiang Chen
Chem. Sci., 2025, 16, 2363
Concluding remarks: Faraday Discussion on data-driven discovery in the chemical sciences
Andrew I. Cooper
Faraday Discuss., 2025, 256, 664
Sorbent-based atmospheric water harvesting: engineering challenges from the process to molecular scale
Isaiah Borne and Andrew I. Cooper
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 4838
PREPRINTS
Language-Based Bayesian Optimization Research Assistant (BORA)
Abdoulatif Cissé, Xenophon Evangelopoulos, Vladimir V Gusev, Andrew I Cooper
arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16224
Andrew Cooper, Annie S Booth, Robert B Gramacy
arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.14946
LIRA: Localization, Inspection, and Reasoning Module for Autonomous Workflows in Self-Driving Labs
Andrew Cooper, Zhengxue Zhou, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Francisco Galeano, Hatem Fakhruldeen
Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6148048/v1]
FLIP: Flowability-Informed Powder Weighing
Nikola Radulov, Alex Wright, Thomas Little, Andrew I Cooper, Gabriella Pizzuto
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03896
Multimodal Behaviour Trees for Robotic Laboratory Task Automation
Hatem Fakhruldeen, Arvind Raveendran Nambiar, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Bonilkumar Vijaykumar Tailor, Hadi Beyzaee Juneghani, Gabriella Pizzuto, Andrew Ian Cooper
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.20399
Francisco Munguia-Galeano, Zhengxue Zhou, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Louis Longley, Rob Clowes, Andrew I Cooper
arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.05148