Progress in High-throughput Material Preparation
Qian Liu*
The State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramic and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China
ABSTRACT: High throughput material preparation technology is one of the three core contents of material genetic engineering. It not only breaks through the traditional "trial and error" research framework, but also realizes the efficient preparation of material chip or sample library. The abundant experimental results thus obtained can also provide data support for big data and computational materials science. High throughput material preparation technology has become an inevitable way to accelerate the development of new materials. Starting from the concept, technical characteristics and technological development process of high-throughput preparation (HTP) methods, the report introduces the preparation of combinatorial material chip of thin and thick film based on a combination of mask/shutter selection and deposition, the preparation of micro-nano powder sample library based on parallel chemical synthesis strategy, the preparation of bulk material sample library based on gradient composition change and stacking, the preparation of spinning fiber sample library based on array nozzle, and the material library preparation based on 3D printing. The advantages of this HTP technology are demonstrated by several representative cases of high-throughput preparation technologies and their application. In addition, the deployment of high-throughput preparation technology and platform construction in China since the national key research and development program "key technologies and support platform for material genetic engineering (the 13th five year plan)" was also briefly introduced. In the near future, high-throughput preparation technology will be more practical and intelligent, combined with artificial intelligence and big data technology, it will lay a solid foundation for the rapid generation, processing, transmission and sharing of material experimental data.
Qian LIU is currently a professor and the deputy director of the innovation center for inorganic materials genomic science, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She has started working on the HTP technology and rapid screening of materials since 2000. She took charge of the national 863 program, the national natural science foundation, and the innovative directional project of CAS. At present, she is responsible for the national key R & D program of china, namely, "Techniques and facilities for high-throughput preparation and rapid screening of low-dimensional combinatorial material chips ". She is also a vice chairman of the technical committee for standardization in the field of materials genomic engineering, Chinese Standards for Testing and Materials (CSTM).