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2005 Meas. Sci. Technol. 16

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INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING
EDITORIAL
Combinatorial and High-Throughput
Materials Research
Guest Editors
Radislav A Potyrailo
General Electric Company,
Global Research Center,
Biosciences, Combichemistry
and Characterization
Technologies, One Research
Circle, Niskayuna, NY 12309,
USA
Ichiro Takeuchi
Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and
Center for Superconductivity
Research, University of
Maryland, College Park,
MD 20742, USA
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The success of combinatorial and high-throughput methodologies relies greatly
on the availability of various characterization tools with new and improved
capabilities [1]. Indeed, how useful can a combinatorial library of 250, 400,
25 000 or 2 000 000 compounds be [25] if one is unable to characterize its
properties of interest fairly quickly? How useful can a set of thousands of spectra
or chromatograms be if one is unable to analyse them in a timely manner? For
these reasons, the development of new approaches for materials characterization
is one of the most active areas in combinatorial materials science.
The importance of this aspect of research in the field has been discussed in
numerous conferences including the Pittsburgh Conferences, the American
Chemical Society Meetings, the American Physical Society Meetings, the
Materials Research Society Symposia and various Gordon Research Conferences.
Naturally, the development of new measurement instrumentation attracts the
attention not only of practitioners of combinatorial materials science but also of
those who design new software for data manipulation and mining. Experimental
designs of combinatorial libraries are pursued with available and realistic
synthetic and characterization capabilities in mind. It is becoming increasingly
critical to link the design of new equipment for high-throughput parallel materials
synthesis with integrated measurement tools in order to enhance the efficacy of
the overall experimental strategy.
We have received an overwhelming response to our proposal and call for
papers for this Special Issue on Combinatorial Materials Science. The papers in
this issue of Measurement Science and Technology are a very timely collection
that captures the state of modern combinatorial materials science. They
demonstrate the significant advances that are taking place in the field. In some
cases, characterization tools are now being operated in the factory mode. At the
same time, major challenges still remain in the rapid characterization of materials
in a number of key technological areas. Scientists are taking on the challenges,
and we can expect many more innovations in the future.
We thank the authors and reviewers for their contributions. Special thanks go
to Professor Peter Hauptmann for encouragement and support of this project, and
to Natasha Leeper and James Dimond, for their assistance in putting this special
issue together.
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