Combinatorial Materials Science

Balaji Narasimhan, PHD, is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Institute for Combinatorial Discovery at Iowa State University.Surya K. Mallapragada, PHD, is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a member of the Institute for Combinatorial Discovery at Iowa State University. She is also a Senior Scientist and Program Director of Materials Chemistry and Biomolecular Materials at Ames Laboratory, a USDOE laboratory.Marc D. Porter, PHD, is a Professor at Arizona State University in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of the Center for Combinatorial Science at The Biodesign Institute.

• Chapter 1: Combinatorial Materials Science:  Measures of Success (Michael J. Fasolka and Eric J. Amis). Chapter 2: Experimental Design in High Throughput Systems (James N. Cawse).Chapter 3: Polymeric Discrete Libraries for High-Throughput Materials Science: Conventional and Microfluidic Library Fabrication and Synthesis (Kathryn L. Beers and Brandon M. Vogel).Chapter 4: Strategies in the Use of Atomic Force Microscopy as a Multiplexed Readout Tool of Chip-Scale Protein Motifs (Jeremy R. Kenseth, Karen M. Kwarta, Jeremy D. Driskell, and Marc D. Porter, John D. Neill and Julia F. Ridpath).Chapter 5: Informatics Methods for Combinatorial Materials Science (Changwon Suh, Krishna Rajana, Brandon M. Vogel, Balaji Narasimhan, and Surya K. Mallapragada).Chapter 6: Combinatorial Approaches and Molecular Evolution of Homogeneous Catalysts (L. Keith Woo).Chapter 7: Biomaterials Informatics (Nicole K. Harris, Joachim Kohn, W.J. Welsh, and Doyle Knight).Chapter 8: Combinatorial Methods and their Application to Mapping Wetting-Dewetting Transition Lines on Gradient Surface Energy Substrates (D. Raghavan, K. M. Ashley, A. Seghal, J. F. Douglas, and A. Karim).Chapter 9: Combinatorial Materials Science: Challenges and Outlook (Balaji Narasimhan, Surya K. Mallapragada, and Marc D. Porter).