Interrogation of 3-dimensional Libraries for High Throughput Inorganic Chemistry

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy, Photovoltaics)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor K Rogers
School of Defence and Security
Cranfield University

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2006

30 September 2010

48 months

£1

No relevance to Underpinning Sectors; Manufacturing

East of England

Physical Sciences

Professor K Rogers, School of Defence and Security, Cranfield University

Dr DW Lane, School of Defence and Security, Cranfield University
Professor LM Peter, Chemistry, University of Bath

This proposal was stimulated from the need to develop rapid analysis methods to interrogate high-density material libraries of various compositions. Such combinatorial techniques, principally exploited by pharmaceutical industry, have recently been applied to functional inorganic materials. A key and often limiting feature of this approach is the requirement to be able to rapidly screen material libraries at high spatial resolution. Our intention is to develop novel approaches to high throughput analysis and, in the first instance, apply these to development of photovoltaic materials.We believe that this programme addresses many of the issues raised by the recent Royal Society of Chemistry review (commissioned by the EPSRC) Chemistry at the Centre : An International Assessment of University Research in Chemistry in the U.K. In particular this programme is collaboration between academics in chemistry and materials disciplines and the analytical techniques developed will be immediately applied in renewable energy chemistry.This proposal should be considered in the context of this review

08/11/11