Search results for soft lithography

Cell & Microbiology Mar 14, 2024

Scientists develop a novel pipeline to create custom cell culture devices

Scientists at the UK Dementia Research Institute at King's at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience have developed a process enabling custom cell culture device creation. This pipeline has been published ...

Nanomaterials Feb 1, 2024

Wafer-scale patterning of gold nanoparticle arrays enables enhanced biosensing

A research team led by Prof. Li Yue from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced a self-confined solid-state dewetting mechanism. This innovation significantly reduces the ...

Soft Matter Dec 7, 2023

Understanding the formation of minute droplets in microfluidic devices

The detailed physics behind droplet generation in microfluidic post-array devices has been clarified by scientists at Tokyo Tech. Through various experiments performed under different operational conditions, they gained important ...

Polymers Oct 12, 2023

A self-wrinkling coating for impact resistance and mechanical enhancement

Polymer coating is widely used as a protective layer in various fields such as surface anti-corrosion, anti-penetration and anti-impact. How to enhance the mechanical properties of coatings such as impact resistance is important ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 29, 2023

Researchers invent a new metallization method of modified tannic acid photoresist patterning

The micro/nano metal pattern formation is a key step in the assembly of various devices. However, ex situ approaches of metal patterning limited their industrial applications due to the poor stability and dispersion of metal ...

Plants & Animals Sep 20, 2023

Unveiling the aquatic marvel: The rock-climbing fish and its adhesion-sliding feat

Underwater "traffic" encompasses a fascinating variety of creatures, from fish with their graceful swimming postures to jet-propelled jellyfish and remoras hitching rides on other organisms. Among these, a remarkable species ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 18, 2023

A modern digital light processing technology to 3D print microfluidic chips

Conventional manufacturing methods such as soft lithography and hot embossing processes can be used to bioengineer microfluidic chips, albeit with limitations, including difficulty in preparing multilayered structures, cost- ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 6, 2023

Team develops shape-transforming colloidal assembly for targeted cargo delivery at microscale

In nature, it is common to find structures that combine both soft and hard material. These structures are responsible for diverse mechanical properties and functions of biological systems. As a typical example, the human ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 22, 2023

Researchers make biodegradable optical components from crab shells

Researchers have developed a process to turn crab shells into a bioplastic that can be used to make optical components known as diffraction gratings. The resulting lightweight, inexpensive gratings are biodegradable and could ...

Soft Matter Feb 16, 2023

Conducting supercooled droplet experiments to design and engineer superhydrophobic ice-repellent surfaces

Supercooled droplets can typically freeze on surfaces in nature, and have broad-scale influence on industries where they can adversely impact technical efficiency and reliability. Superhydrophobic surfaces are therefore a ...

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