Combinatorial Methods, Automated Synthesis and High-throughput Screening in Polymer Research: The Evolution Continues
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Meier, Michael; Hoogenboom, Richard; Schubert, Ulrich S.
- Abstract:
- For speeding-up preparation as well as investigating
new polymeric materials, combinatorial techniques,
parallel experimentation, and high-throughput screening
methods represent a very promising approach in polymer
chemistry: a large variety of parameters can be screened
simultaneously resulting in new structure–property relationships.
As previously described, polymer chemistry seems to
be perfectly suited for combinatorial approaches since it is
relatively easy to vary many parameters during the synthesis,
processing, blending, or compounding. Moreover, the development
and application of high-throughput screening
techniques for polymer properties can accelerate the development
of new materials and can result in new structure–
property relationships. Therefore, these screening tools,
together with parallel preparation techniques, will significantly
decrease the time to market of new products. Here
we provide an update of our recent overview covering new
developments in the field of combinatorial and parallel
polymer synthesis and high-throughput screening.
- Year:
- 2004
- Type of Publication:
- Article
- Keywords:
- combinatorial chemistry; high throughput screening; materials; polymers; structure property relations
- Journal:
- Macromolecular Rapid Communications
- Volume:
- 25
- Pages:
- 21 – 33