Patent ID: 8034550

Claim:
A method of manufacturing strips of a non-reactive substrate extending along a longitudinal axis and supporting a linear array of different, chemically reactive substances exposed on a surface of the strip, the chemically reactive substances being spaced at locations along the longitudinal axis, the method comprising the steps of: (a) positioning a strip to simultaneously have different longitudinal portions within different volumes, each volume holding different component solutions; (b) light-activating a bonding between a substance of at least one of the component solutions and a longitudinal portion of the strip in at least one of the volumes, at one or more locations; (c) repositioning the strip to move the longitudinal portions among the different volumes; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) with light activation of the bonding of different substances in the different volumes and repositioning of the strip to synthesize different chemically reactive substances at the locations.