High-Throughput Exploration of Evolutionary Structural Materials

Abstract

While experimental high-throughput and computational methods exist for the development of functional materials, structural materials are still being developed on the base of experience, stepwise prediction and punctual support of computational models. As a result, many major breakthroughs have been and still are achieved by coincidence under non-intuitive conditions. Experimental high throughput methods allow to explore large process windows where no prediction is possible due to lack of existent data. This work proposes the high throughput method "Farbige Zustande" as a novel approach for the experimental exploration of structural materials. New methods for sample synthesis, treatment and characterization are developed as well as computational methods for ad-hoc data analysis, search and experiment planning.