Combinatorial Inorganic Chemistry Applied to Induction Plasma Synthesis of Materials

By using suspensions and solutions precursors combined with supersonic or subsonic nozzles, induction plasma is a very versatile research tool in order to vary in flight the composition of the materials and the resulting micro-nanostructure.  Such a flexibility represents an opportunity to develop the combinatorial inorganic chemistry approach applied to the induction plasma process.  A special reactor and the associated robotic and control system has been developed in order to produce up to 225 different button cells per experiment.  The same system has also been designed to be compatible with the production of up to 1X1ft planar cells.  Because of the high sample throughput, special characterization systems had to be developed in order to evaluate the coating quality such as an automated non contact ultrasonic system or multiple bench tests for button cells or reformers tests had to be constructed.