Development of a Process for High Throughput Surface Tension Measurement using the epMotion® 5075

Introduction

A high throughput process for the preparation and testing of samples for their surface tension using the epMotion 5075 Liquid handling platform and Kibron delta-8 tensiometer has been successfully developed and implemented at the Centre for Materials Discovery. This allows multiple samples to be rapidly screened with a high accuracy, reproducibility and on a more cost effective scale. The process was shown to be over 500 times faster than manual traditional methods and allows swift studies to be carried out of formulation in the inks, surfactants, polymers, pharmaceutical and household care industries.