Patent Issued for Apparatus for Forming Films on Substrates

摘要

From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: "Automation is well established in the field of materials discovery and research. Over the past several years, there have been efforts to apply automation and high throughput techniques into various development labs in which automated systems have been set up to serve dedicated workflows. For example, there are a number of automated reactor systems that have been used for synthesis screening and process optimization. See, for example, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 4306-4317; 'An Automated Approach to Process Optimization, Parameter Setting, and Robustness Testing' Organic Process R&D 2001, 5, 331-334; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 15280 15285; 'Automated Workstations for Parallel Synthesis' Organic Process R&D 2002, 6, 833-840; 'Parallel solid-phase synthesis, screening, and encoding strategies for olefin-polymerization catalysts.' Tetrahedron 1999, 55(39), 11699-11710; 'An integrated high-throughput workflow for pre-formulations: Polymorphs and salt selection studies' Pharmachem, 2003, 1(7/8); and 'Application of high throughput technologies to drug substance and drug product development' Computers and Chem. Eng. 2004, 28, 943-953.