DPOLY Short Course

Pre-registration only — no on-site registration

Saturday, March 8/Sunday, March 9
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
La Galerie 4
New Orleans Marriott Hotel
555 Canal Street

High-throughput approaches to Polymer Physics and Materials Science

This course will consider the application of combinatorial and high-throughput experimental approaches to accelerate research on polymers and other materials systems. The focus will be on techniques and instrumentation that can be adopted by a wide variety of research institutions, from industrial laboratories to academic groups. The goal of the course is for participants to acquire enough detailed information that they can begin to apply these powerful methods in their own laboratories.

Short course topics will include:

Introduction to basic concepts in high-throughput materials research
Guidance on where and when these new techniques should be applied
Design, fabrication and calibration of continuous gradient and discrete combinatorial libraries that span key parameters in materials structure and behavior
High throughput measurements of polymers and materials specimen chemistry, structure, and physical properties
Building flexible device infrastructures for high-throughput analysis
Harnessing microfluidic techniques for measuring solutions and complex fluids
Basic routes for instrument automation, and automated analysis
Case studies illuminating successful application of these methods to research in polymer films and coatings, formulated fluids, complex materials, organic electronics, biomaterials and nanostructured materials

Activities:

Instructional lectures from leaders in the field
Guided brainstorming sessions on extending library fabrication and high-throughput measurements to new materials systems
Panel discussions with of experts from industry, academia and government

Primary Organizer
Michael J. Fasolka
Director, NIST Combinatorial Methods Center