Cronin Group PLC Digital Chemistry to be performed in space
16 February 2017 - 6:01PM
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Cronin Group PLC
16 February 2017
16 February 2017
Cronin Group Plc
(the "Company")
Digital Chemistry to be performed in space
Cronin Group Plc, the AIM listed company with a business
activity of the digitization of chemical space is pleased to note
that an experiment designed by its scientific founder is to be
carried out on a DIDO2 nano-satellite, successfully launched
yesterday on an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
rocket.
Prof Lee Cronin, the University of Glasgow Regius Chair of
Chemistry and Founding Scientific Director of the Company, designed
the experiment in partnership with SpacePharma, a company which
specialises in providing scientists with access to microgravity
environments. The Company owns the commercial rights to
intellectual property from the University of Glasgow to develop the
Chemputer(TM), which intends to open up chemistry to a wide
user-base via digitization.
Prof Cronin said: "It's exciting to see digital chemistry being
trialled in space for the first time. Low and zero-gravity offer a
range of new opportunities for performing chemical reactions which
I believe will only be able to be performed routinely using a
digital chemistry platform.
"The Company announced in January that during 2017 it
anticipated early product releases of DigitalGlassware(TM), it's
low-cost, easy to use chemical telemetry product designed to enable
the routine digitization of chemistry in commercial and academic
research laboratories.
"The experiment carried out today is part of previous research
performed and part-funded by the University, with additional
funding from the European Research Council and the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council. The research aims to digitize
chemistry and make it possible for chemical compounds of all kinds
to be printed on demand."
ENDS
Contacts:
Cronin Group Plc www.croningroupplc.com
James Ede-Golightly, Chairman T: 01481 701 564
WH Ireland Limited www.whirelandplc.com
Mike Coe / Ed Allsopp T: 0117 945 3470
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