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Cover Picture: Combinatorial Material Mechanics: High‐Throughput Polymer Synthesis and Nanomechanical Screening (Adv. Mater. 21/2005)
Author(s) -
Tweedie C. A.,
Anderson D. G.,
Langer R.,
Van Vliet K. J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200590109
Subject(s) - materials science , polymer , characterization (materials science) , monomer , throughput , nanotechnology , cover (algebra) , composite material , polymer science , computer science , mechanical engineering , engineering , telecommunications , wireless
Abstract The automated synthesis and nanomechanical characterization of discrete combinatorial arrays of polymers enables high‐throughput discovery and analysis of compliant, functional materials, as shown by Van Vliet and co‐workers on p. 2599. The cover illustrates a triplicate array of 576 polymers automatically printed on a glass microscope slide, where each spot represents a pairwise, systematically varied composition among 24 different monomers. Overlaid on the image of this triplicate array is a differential interference contrast image of a single nanoliter‐scale polymer volume. In less than twenty‐four hours of synthesis and mechanical characterization, the stiffness of each polymer is determined and related to key monomer structures and volume fractions thereof.