Pioneered by the pharmaceutical industry and adapted for the purposes of materials science and engineering, the combinatorial method is now widely considered a watershed in the accelerated discovery, development, and optimization of new materials. Combinatorial Materials Synthesis reveals the gears behind combinatorial materials chemistry and thin-film technology, and discusses the prime techniques involved in synthesis and property determination for experimentation with a variety of materials. Funneling historic innovations into one source, the book explores core approaches to synthesis and rapid characterization techniques for work with combinatorial materials libraries.

Foreword, Preface, Contributors, 1. Introduction, 2. Multiple-Sample Concept: The Forerunner of Combinatorial Materials Science, 3. The Continuous Composition Spread Approach, 4. Combinatorial Approach to Ferroelectric/Dielectric Materials, 5. Parallel Synthesis of Artificially Designed Lattices and Devices, 6. Combinatorial Synthesis of Display Phosphors, 7. Combinatorial Ion Synthesis and Ion Beam Analysis of Materials Libraries, 8. Mapping of Physical Properties: Composition Phase Diagrams of Complex Materials Systems Using Continuous Composition Materials Chips, 9. Temperature-Dependent Materials Research with Micromachined Array Platforms, 10. X-Ray Techniques for Characterization of Combinatorial Materials Libraries, 11. High-Throughput Screening of Electrical Impedance of Functional Materials by Evanescent Microwave Probe, 12. Combinatorial Computational Chemistry Approach in the Design of New Catalysts and Functional Materials, 13. Computational Informatics: Guided Discovery for Combinatorial Experiments, Index