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A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology

Microstructures are playing an important role in manufacturing functional devices, due to their unique properties, such as wettability or flexibility. Recently, various microstructured surfaces have been fabricated to realize functional applications. To achieve the applications, photolithography or...

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Autores principales: Sun, Jiazhen, Yun, Chenghu, Cui, Bo, Li, Pingping, Liu, Guangping, Wang, Xin, Chu, Fuqiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30961134
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10111209
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author Sun, Jiazhen
Yun, Chenghu
Cui, Bo
Li, Pingping
Liu, Guangping
Wang, Xin
Chu, Fuqiang
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Yun, Chenghu
Cui, Bo
Li, Pingping
Liu, Guangping
Wang, Xin
Chu, Fuqiang
author_sort Sun, Jiazhen
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description Microstructures are playing an important role in manufacturing functional devices, due to their unique properties, such as wettability or flexibility. Recently, various microstructured surfaces have been fabricated to realize functional applications. To achieve the applications, photolithography or printing technology is utilized to produce the microstructures. However, these methods require preparing templates or masks, which are usually complex and expensive. Herein, a facile approach for fabricating microstructured surfaces was studied based on etched template by inkjet printing technology. Precured polydimethylsiloxane substrate was etched by inkjet printing water-soluble polyacrylic acid solution. Then, the polydimethylsiloxane substrate was cured and rinsed, which could be directly used as template for fabricating microstructured surfaces. Surfaces with raised dots, lines, and squares, were facilely obtained using the etched templates by inkjet printing technology. Furthermore, controllable anisotropic wettability was exhibited on the raised line microstructured surface. This work provides a flexible and scalable way to fabricate various microstructured surfaces. It would bring about excellent performance, which could find numerous applications in optoelectronic devices, biological chips, microreactors, wearable products, and related fields.
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spelling pubmed-62906372019-04-02 A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology Sun, Jiazhen Yun, Chenghu Cui, Bo Li, Pingping Liu, Guangping Wang, Xin Chu, Fuqiang Polymers (Basel) Article Microstructures are playing an important role in manufacturing functional devices, due to their unique properties, such as wettability or flexibility. Recently, various microstructured surfaces have been fabricated to realize functional applications. To achieve the applications, photolithography or printing technology is utilized to produce the microstructures. However, these methods require preparing templates or masks, which are usually complex and expensive. Herein, a facile approach for fabricating microstructured surfaces was studied based on etched template by inkjet printing technology. Precured polydimethylsiloxane substrate was etched by inkjet printing water-soluble polyacrylic acid solution. Then, the polydimethylsiloxane substrate was cured and rinsed, which could be directly used as template for fabricating microstructured surfaces. Surfaces with raised dots, lines, and squares, were facilely obtained using the etched templates by inkjet printing technology. Furthermore, controllable anisotropic wettability was exhibited on the raised line microstructured surface. This work provides a flexible and scalable way to fabricate various microstructured surfaces. It would bring about excellent performance, which could find numerous applications in optoelectronic devices, biological chips, microreactors, wearable products, and related fields. MDPI 2018-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6290637/ /pubmed/30961134 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10111209 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology
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title_fullStr A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology
title_full_unstemmed A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology
title_short A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology
title_sort facile approach for fabricating microstructured surface based on etched template by inkjet printing technology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30961134
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10111209
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