New technologies in research

Finding the ideal active compound in material protection is as in pharmaceutical or agrochemical research like 

Thousands of compounds have to be synthesized and screened to find the best candidate. The discovery of new lead structures and their further optimization involves high risks and costs. Because of the enormously high follow up cost for toxicological studies, development and registration, wrong decisions have to be avoided. Therefore new techniques are required which can help to reduce the time, cost or risk involved in R D. The introduction of new methods to accelerate the development was driven by R D in life sciences. In the meantime, similar methods have come in use in the research for material protection as well as the research for new materials, polymers and catalysts. 

The process of finding new active ingredients can generally be divided into two main steps  

In order to accelerate the finding of new lead structures, two separate methods are in use  

In general, both methods can be used independently or together. 

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