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Systems and methods for characterization of materials and combinatorial libraries with mechanical oscillators

  • US 6,401,519 B1
  • Filed: 11/28/2000
  • Issued: 06/11/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of screening an array of liquid materials for a selected property, the method comprising:

  • providing an array of liquid materials;

    contacting the array of liquid materials with low frequency unimorph resonators, the resonators designed to minimize excitation of acoustic waves and calibrated against a set of standard liquids to yield calibrations relating the selected property of responses of the resonators to a stimulus;

    applying a stimulus to the resonators causing the resonators to oscillate;

    periodically monitoring responses of the resonator to the stimulus;

    monitoring heat generated or consumed by the array of liquid materials; and

    measuring the selected property of the array of liquid materials based on the monitored responses and calibrations.

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