Ultra‐High‐Throughput Discovery of Multifunctional Polyphenolic Coatings on Droplet Microarrays
Vania Tanda Widyaya, Joaquín E. Urrutia Gómez, Paul Reuß, Alexander Welle, Rolf A. Gattung, Jana Mayer, Peter Krolla, Markus Reischl, Pascal Friederich, Anna A. Popova, Thomas Schwartz, Pavel A. Levkin · 2026
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Vania Tanda Widyaya and co-authors screened tens of thousands of coatings at once in a 2026 study. Useful coatings serve health care, energy, and clean water, but finding new ones is slow. The team used droplet microarrays, grids of tiny drops, to mix and test pairs and triples of plant polyphenols and polyamines. About 30,000 coatings were made, each in a drop smaller than a grain of rice.
The sweep found hundreds of new functional materials. Over 225 coatings glowed under light, and more than 100 could drive chemical reduction or grab metals. Seven coatings reliably fought a stubborn germ, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Each test used tiny amounts of material, so the whole search cost little. The method shows how mini testing can speed the hunt for coatings with real jobs.
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| CREATOR | Vania Tanda Widyaya, Joaquín E. Urrutia Gómez, Paul Reuß, Alexander Welle, Rolf A. Gattung, Jana Mayer, Peter Krolla, Markus Reischl, Pascal Friederich, Anna A. Popova, Thomas Schwartz, Pavel A. Levkin |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 116642 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |