The group's principal activities are to research, develop, manufacture and market products, through the application of combinatorial technologies in the area of materials science. The group is involved in research collaborations with large chemical, life science and electronic companies and undertakes licensing of proprietary materials. Through a combination of powerful miniaturization, automation and parallel processing technologies, the group's scientists are able to generate numerous materials at a time and screen these materials rapidly and automatically for desired properties. The group applies proprietary technologies, instruments, software and methods to cost-effectively accelerate and fundamentally change materials discovery.