Addition Hardware: The lab scale synthesis of nano-and advanced materials often requires liquid dosing of reactants and reagents over a large range of volumes. Some catalysts or highly specialized or very expensive (bio-)molecules are often required on the microliter scale, while others such as solvents are often required on a larger scale of tens to a few hundreds of milliliters. To accommodate these needs, we opted for a combination of different liquid addition hardware. First, there is a pipetting robot with open hardware and open software (Python API) and the ability to handle microliter to milliliter amounts with different single and multi-channel pipettes that use conventional disposable pipette tips, as well as a high flexibility and easy re-configuration of its deck layout for using small to medium quantities of frequently changing chemicals. The robot arm can also be used to bring new chemicals, reactants, or reagents to the pipetting robot or remove them from its deck and bring them to other hardware components such as hotplates or a centrifuge for further processing. Second, we use a combination of syringe pumps and multi-position selector valves for dispensing larger amounts of commonly used liquids and solvents that do not need to be changed frequently (Water, Ethanol, Toluene, etc.). These are stationary and have to be configured before a reaction (or campaign) is run on the SDL. There is however also a common outlet on one of the ports of the valve that can be used flexibly for transferring the contents of one container to another (e.g., from a reaction flask to a centrifuge tube), to remove liquids from containers (e.g., the supernatant after a centrifugation step), or to move the contents of a container to other characterization hardware outside the reach of the robot arm if that instrument is equipped with a flow cell for in-line characterization and closed-loop optimization (e.g., dynamic light scattering or optical spectroscopy).