Combinatorial methods and informatics provide insight into physical properties and structure relationships during IPN formation

Combinatorial methods and informatics are applied to the study of complex property-structure-processing relationships during interpenetrating polymer network formation in an epoxy/acrylate system. Principal component analysis of a dataset that covers different compositions and process sequences successfully identifies the most unique samples as well as relationships between material properties. The relationships between material properties can be exploited in future investigations by allowing high throughput screening and as a guide for engineering materials. The use of combinatorial methods, high throughput screening, and informatics will lead to accelerated material design.