Focus on Coatings R & D: New Research Methods Creating Possibilities (Technology Today‪)‬

For well over 100 years, innovation has enabled the paint and coatings industry to offer novel products for new substrates, ever better products with improved performance, and products with reduced environmental impact. Despite the gains made in this time, significant gaps in knowledge and understanding remain. Research approaches such as design of experiment (DOE), high throughput experimentation (HTE), combinatorial methods (Combi), and data mining (DM) now being applied to coatings R & D aim to fill those gaps and may lead to many new opportunities for the industry. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]