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Instrument for high throughput measurement of material physical properties and method of using same

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  • Damian Hajduk (Inventor)
  • Eric Carlson (Inventor)
  • Christopher Freitag (Inventor)
  • Oleg Kolosov (Inventor)
  • James Engstrom (Inventor)
  • Adam Safir (Inventor)
  • Ravi Shrinivasan (Inventor)
  • L Matsiev (Inventor)
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Patent numberUS6936471
IPCGO1N 3/00
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

An apparatus and method for screening combinatorial libraries
of materials by measuring the response of individual library members to mechanical perturbations is described. The apparatus generally includes a sample holder for containing the library members, an array of probes for mechanically perturbing individual library members, and an array of
sensors for measuring the response of each of the library members to the mechanical perturbations. Library members undergoing screening make up a sample array, and individual library members constitute elements of the sample
array that are confined to specific locations on the sample holder. During screening, the apparatus mechanically perturbs individual library members by displacing the sample array (sample holder) and the array of probes. Typically, all of the elements of the sample array are perturbed simultaneously, but the apparatus also can also perturb individual or groups of sample array elements sequentially. The flexible apparatus and method can screen libraries of
aterials based on many different bulk physical properties, including Young's modulus (flexure, uniaxial extension, biaxial compression, and shear); hardness (indentation), failure (stress and strain at failure, toughness), adhesion (tack, loop tack), and flow (viscosity, melt flow indexing, and rheology), among others.

Bibliographic note

Issued Aug. 30, 2005