Patent ID: 6406632
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: B01D,B01J,C40B,G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for characterizing a combinatorial library of non-biological polymer samples, the method comprisingproviding a combinatorial library comprising four or more spatially separated non-biological polymer samples, the four or more polymer samples being polymerization polymer mixtures resulting from polymerization reactions that are varied with respect to a factor affecting polymerization, serially injecting the four or more non-biological polymer samples into a mobile phase of a liquid chromatography system, chromatographically separating at least one sample component or polymer molecule of each of the four or more injected polymer samples from other sample components or polymer molecules thereof, and serially detecting a property of the four or more non-biological polymer samples or of components or polymer molecules thereof with a flow-through detector at an average sample throughput of not more than about 10 minutes per sample.