To address these issues, in this article we pose the following questions: can we leverage previouslydeveloped chemistry text mining tools to analyse the synthesis protocols for a single target nanomaterial? If so, can we develop methods to process the extracted information on a uniform basis, enabling like-for-like comparison regardless of original format? Finally, can we harness this information to accelerate synthesis refinement of the material e.g. by generating proposed synthesis conditions correlated to high material quality and yield?