What's New

Materials

You can use the new Materials pane to maintain a list of the materials used in an experiment.

The Materials pane lists the material name, role, CAS number, and amount with units for each material used in the experiment. You can sort the table containing the materials and configure the display and grouping of its columns. You can only add a Materials pane to an experiment created with the Generic experiment type.

The entries in the Materials pane table always correspond to existing materials in Materials Management. For each material in the table, you can view its detailed information in a Materials Management preview. You can edit the amount and units of materials in the experiment.

Benefits: Recording materials and their amounts is key to describing the details of an experiment. Referencing materials stored in Materials Management efficiently uses existing data, exploiting shared materials to allow tracking of any material in all its instances.

For more information, see Working with Materials Formulas and Materials

Reaction Schemes

You can now add a Reaction Scheme pane to include a visual representation of the reaction related to an experiment.

The Reaction Scheme pane displays a reaction for the experiment. You can only add a Reaction Scheme pane to an experiment created with the Synthetic Chemistry experiment type.

You can sketch the reaction manually using the Pipette Sketcher and specify multiple reactants, products, solvents, catalysts, and reagents. You can also import reactions from supported standard chemical files (such as .skc, .mol, .rxn, .cdx, .sdf, .rdf, .inchi). For any reaction, you can later edit the reaction using the Pipette Sketcher if required, or make updates in the stoichiometry table.

The Stoichiometry panel table is synchronized with the reaction scheme. When you add materials to the Reaction Scheme pane, they automatically display in the Stoichiometry pane table.

Benefits: Displaying full and potentially complex reaction schemes using a standard 2D representation, editable through a familiar and intuitive interface, is key to describing the details of an experiment.

For more information, see Reactions and Stoichiometry Working with Reactions and Stoichiometry

Stoichiometry

You can now add a Stoichiometry pane to define the relative amounts of different materials involved in a reaction for an experiment.

The table in the Stoichiometry pane automatically contains all the materials involved in the reaction scheme. You can also manually add materials to the stoichiometry table, resulting in automatic updates to the reaction scheme. You can only add a Stoichiometry pane to an experiment created with the Synthetic Chemistry experiment type.

For each material in the Stoichiometry pane, you can assign its role in the reaction, define its properties, and specify its amount and stoichiometric coefficient. When you specify certain properties or amounts, calculations automatically populate other columns of the table. For example, the amount (in mass units) and molecular weight automatically generate a calculated number of Moles.

You can sort the table containing the reaction materials and configure the display and grouping of its columns.

Benefits: Displaying full stoichiometry details for all reactants, reagents, catalysts, solvents, and products is key to describing the details of an experiment.

For more information, see Reactions and Stoichiometry Working with Reactions and Stoichiometry

Authentication of E-signatures

When experiments transition between lifecycle states and your e-signature confirms your approval of the change, Scientific Notebook fully integrates with 3DPassport to validate your signature.

Benefits: 3DPassport enhances security when you provide an e-signature for a change to an experiment's lifecycle.

For more information, see Working with the Experiment Lifecycle

Project Access Rights

You can now control access to projects by assigning access rights to users or groups.

For each project in Scientific Notebook, when you add a user or group to the project, you can assign Read or Create rights.

Owners can add users to their experiments if they do not have automatic access through the project. But Owners cannot remove users from experiments, if their access is determined through the project.

If you do not have access to a project, you cannot view the project or find experiments in the project. When you create experiments, the Projects list only displays projects to which you have access. If you search for a term that matches experiments in a project to which you do not have access, the results do not include those experiments.

Benefits: Limiting access to experiments in projects to which a user has access rights, reduces the number of experiments in their list of all experiments. Controlling access to experiments provides security for the detailed information in the experiment descriptions and prevents undesirable sharing of data.

For more information, see Managing Projects Projects

Default Experiment Types

You can now choose from three default experiment types when you create a new experiment: Generic, Formulation, or Synthetic Chemistry.

When you create a new experiment, you can use one of the default experiment types to automatically load the appropriate panes in the experiment.

For Generic experiments, you can enter data in Write-Up and Materials panes. For Formulation experiments, you can enter data in Write-Up and Formulation panes. For Synthetic Chemistry experiments, you can enter data in Write-Up, Reaction Scheme, and Stoichiometry panes.

Benefits: Each standard experiment domain has its own default experiment template, so you do not need to manually add frequently-used panes to your experiment.

For more information, see Adding an Experiment Describing the Experiment

Standard Home Page

The Scientific Notebook home page now has a standardized layout.

The left pane of the home page now has familiar action names and icons to help you understand what they do.

Benefits: When you work with several 3DEXPERIENCE apps, the home page layout is familiar, easy to navigate, and intuitive.

For more information, see Home Page

Usability of Opening Experiments

You can now access and open experiments from the  Open action on the left pane of the Scientific Notebook home page.

When you click  Open, the results display for an automatic search for all experiments to which you have access. You can apply 6WTags to filter the results so that you can locate the experiment you want open.

Benefits: You can now quickly find and open your experiments without needing to browse a potentially long list.

For more information, see Home Page Accessing Scientific Notebook Experiments

Permissions and File Attachment Icons

The icons for permissions actions and adding file attachments are now more recognizable.

The icon for adding file attachments to text sections in Write-Up panes is now the standard .

The icons for changing the permissions of users and groups now better indicate which actions change, add, or remove permissions or review rights.

Benefits: It is now easier for you to find and understand the permissions actions and how to work with file attachments.

For more information, see Working with File Attachments Managing Experiment Users

Experiment Lifecycles

The lifecycle of transitions between experiment maturity states is now simplified.

The new lifecycle for experiments has fewer states and fewer transitions between them. This is easier for users to understand and predict the path their experiments take through maturity states.

Existing experiments created with the previously available lifecycle continue to follow the maturity states from that earlier lifecycle.

Benefits: A simpler lifecycle of maturity state transitions is easier to understand and reduces errors.

For more information, see About the Experiment Lifecycle Working with the Experiment Lifecycle

Scientific Notebook Preferences

You can now specify the content to load when you access Scientific Notebook.

You can choose to display the home page or your most recently visited content when you access Scientific Notebook again — whether you refresh the app, open a dashboard with the app pinned, or log in to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Benefits: Scientific Notebook preferences help you to control what content to load, so you can quickly come back to your most recently accessed experiment.

For more information, see Customizing Preferences