Development Trend of the Combinatorial Materials Chips

Xiao-Dong Xiang

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

ABSTRACT

Establishing the systematic relationships between materials composition, structure, synthesis parameter, and property, which are in general presented as “phase diagrams,” is one of the central tasks of Materials Genome Initiative. Conventional materials research methodology, characterized by synthesizing and characterizing one sample at a time, is costly, time-consuming, unsystematic, and, given these disadvantages, insufficient for the current era of accelerating technology. Meanwhile, combinatorial materials chip technology, featuring high-throughput synthesis and the characterization of materials libraries containing 10²–10⁴ samples on one small substrate in a short period of time, has demonstrated great potential to break through the existing bottleneck. Over the past two decades, high-throughput experimental technologies have undergone rapid progress. A wide range of techniques and related instruments has been developed for synthesizing materials libraries of various forms and characterizing composition, structure, and electrochemical, catalytic, electromagnetic, magnetic, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties. In this talk, I will introduce the development trend of the combinatorial material chip technology and the latest progress in high throughput synthesis and screening techniques.

DOI: 10.12110/firstfmge.20171121.205