SYNTHESIS STRATEGIES OF MATERIALS

The pace at which major technological changes take
place is often dictated by the rate at which new
materials are discovered, and the timely arrival of
new materials has always played a key role in
bringing advances to our society. It is no wonder then
that the so-called combinatorial or high-throughput
strategy has been embraced by practitioners of
materials science in virtually every field. Highthroughput experimentation allows simultaneous
synthesis and screening of large arrays of different
materials. Pioneered by the pharmaceutical industry,
the combinatorial method is now widely considered
to be a watershed in accelerating the discovery and
optimization of new materials