high throughput coatings testing

 

In usual practice, anti-corrosion coating materials or formulations are evaluated in various accelerated aging protocols, such as ASTM B117.

Small numbers of test formulations are aged or weathered together in a test cabinet for hundreds of hours, then ranked for performance in comparison to that of a known standard.  The conventional test is slow, unreliable, and has very low throughput.

 

Polymer Alloys' high throughput method can screen libraries of anti-corrosion formulations using an electrochemical method that is fast, reliable, and amenable to high throughput.

 

U S Patent 6,365,034: "High throughput electrochemical test for measuring corrosion resistance."

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