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EPSRC Reference:	GR/T02591/01
Title:	Development of High-Throughput Ink & Polymer Resist Screening Mehtodologies - Arrays, Parallelisation & Miniaturisation
Principal Investigator:	Bradley, Professor M
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Project Partners:	Avecia Limited
Department:	Sch of Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Southampton
Scheme:	Faraday (PreFEC)
Starts:	01 June 2004	Ends:	28 February 2005	Value (£):	200,218
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Combinatorial Chemistry
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Chemicals
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For any new product to be developed and commercialised a huge range of screening processes need to be undertaken to ensure the product will survive the rigors of commercial life. These screens come in many different shapes and forms depending upon the material being developed. Materials can fail at any stage, although obviously the later this occurs in a screening process the greater the cost that will have been incurred. Clearly there is a need to increase the throughput of materials through this process (and their failing) in a time and cost efficient manner. The proposal is therefore to take HT/combinatorial chemistry into novel directions with the development of a variety of generic, rapid and efficient yet information rich high-throughput screens screening methodologies for measuring a range of physical properties, including viscosity, surface tension, aging, density, using new HT arraying and imaging techniques. This will be achieved in the following manner:(a). Taking all new materials/formulations through the whole process is a time and cost-efficient manner.(b). Miniaturisation of the screens to save on both materials and screening costs.(c). Development of a set of generic screens for use in a broad number of research areas.(d). The development of data handling, acquisition and mining software that will allow rapid visualisation and understanding of the results generated.
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