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A comprehensive screening study to identify optimal release thermodynamics should include both mixed metal amine salts as well as low concentration dopants. It is, however, not practically possible due to the large number of possible combinations. Limiting the potential elements to 3d and 4d transition metals, alkali, alkaline earth metals, and halides down to the sixth period of the periodic table, the number of candidate structures with just two different cations and two different anions in a super cell of 8 formula units is almost 2 million. An intelligent screening method is therefore needed to cut down the number of calculations e.g., a genetic algorithm. 

Where the consequences of combining two or more materials under given conditions of temperature, confinement, etc., are unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty, testing may need to be performed to screen for potential incompatibilities. Two common test methods used for this purpose are differential scanning calorimetry and mixing cell calorimetry (described later in this section). 

In a simplified method for screening vitamin D levels in fortified skimmed milk, the milk sample was mixed with water, ethanol, and ammonium hydroxide and then extracted four times with diethyl ether/hexane. The dried residue obtained from the combined organic phase could be analyzed by HPLC without the need for purification (85). 

All the spectroscopic approaches applied for structural characterization of mixtures derive from methods originally developed for screening libraries for their biological activities. They include diffusion-ordered spectroscopy [15-18], relaxation-edited spectroscopy [19], isotope-filtered affinity NMR [20] and SAR-by-NMR [21]. These applications will be discussed in the last part of this chapter. As usually most of the components show very similar molecular weight, their spectroscopic parameters, such as relaxation rates or selfdiffusion coefficients, are not very different and application of these methodologies for chemical characterization is not straightforward. An exception is diffusion-edited spectroscopy, which can be a feasible way to analyze the structure of compounds within a mixture without the need of prior separation. This was the case for the analysis of a mixture of five esters (propyl acetate, butyl acetate, ethyl butyrate, isopropyl butyrate and butyl levulinate) [18]. By the combined use of diffusion-edited NMR and 2-D NMR methods such as Total Correlation Spectroscopy (TOCSY), it was possible to elucidate the structure of the components of this mixture. This strategy was called diffusion encoded spectroscopy DECODES. Another example of combination between diffusion-edited spectroscopy and traditional 2-D NMR experiment is the DOSY-NOESY experiment [22]. The use of these experiments have proven to be useful in the identification of compounds from small split and mix synthetic pools. 

These materials, known as polymer blends or polymer alloys (see Table 1.3), are generally prepared by mixing two or more thermoplastics. They combine, in an advantageous manner, the properties of the thermoplastic components, and in some cases, the properties of the blends are superior to those of the individual components. (Polymer mixtures also result from the recycling of mixed plastics which have to be identified before they can be reused.) Because of the large number of possible blend components, and the fact that usually so-called compatibilizers of often rather complicated chemical composition are present, a complete analysis of polymer blends is not possible with simple methods. However, by means of some screening tests and selected special tests, one can at least obtain qualitative information about the main components of such systems. 

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