Adhesives to be evaluated by rapid screening methods.(Welding/Joining)

Advanced Materials & Processes, May, 2004

Rapid screening and measurement methods that speed discovery of new epoxies, pressure-sensitive adhesives, and other products manufactured for the $30 billion global adhesives market are to be devised in a new collaboration at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md.

In a project just getting under way, the partners will refine and extend miniaturized technologies for simultaneous testing of hundreds of systematically varying adhesive formulations. One test platform is designed for screening new combinations of components for labels, skin patches, and other pressure-sensitive adhesives. It includes an array of up to 1,600 "micro lenses," an arrangement resembling a fly's compound eye. In an automated process, each lens is...

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