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Figure 11.17 Fluid reactant distribution in a microstructured reactor by a binary tree channel network. (From Berg, S.H. and Guan, S., W000/51720 to Symyx Technologies, Inc., March 1999.)...

The authors thank the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (fellowships for T. Weskamp and V. P. W. Bohm) and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (studentships for T. Weskamp and V. P. W. Bohm). Special thanks goes to U. Tracht (Symyx Technologies) and to our pioneer in NHC chemistry, K. Ofele, for helpful discussions. 

THOMAS WESKAMP (1), Symyx Technologies, Santa Clara, California 95051... 

MDL Available Chemicals Directory database 2007, Symyx Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA. 

There exist a multitude of chemical reagent sources. The Available Chemical Directory (ACD) collection, from Symyx Technologies Inc., lists as many as 1,160,000 unique chemicals with chemical structure, pricing, supplier, purity, forms, etc. 

Fig. 1.3 HT-R. D workflow used in the oxidative dehydrogenation of the ethane program at Symyx Technologies.

B1 assigned to Symyx Technologies filed October 3, 2000 and a continuation of the now abandoned application No. 09/215417 filed on December 18, 1998. 

D.R. Dorsett Jr. 222nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 26-30, 2001. Patents pending to Symyx Technologies. 

Fig. 11.8 Schematic of the automated primary high-throughput electrochemical workflow employed at Symyx Technologies for the combinatorial development of new fuel cell catalysts. Individual steps of the workflow include choice of catalyst concept, design of appropriate materials library using Library Studio [31], synthesis of electrocatalyst library on electrode array wafer, XRD and EDX characterization of individual electrocatalysts before screening, high-throughput parallel electrochemical screening of library, XRD and EDX characterization of catalysts after screening, data processing and evaluation.

Now with the advent of high throughput screening techniques, also known as combinatorial methodologies, pioneered by Symyx Technologies and the subject of this book, the catalyst researcher is provided with an entirely new tool which allows for experimentation to be accelerated by a factor of 102 to 104. This indeed is remarkable as is amply described and dissected in the different contributions of this book, for it is now possible to combine chemical know-how, experience, intuition and fast experimentation all at once. 

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