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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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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 |
author_facet | Sun, Jiazhen Yun, Chenghu Cui, Bo Li, Pingping Liu, Guangping Wang, Xin Chu, Fuqiang |
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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sun, Jiazhen Yun, Chenghu Cui, Bo Li, Pingping Liu, Guangping Wang, Xin Chu, Fuqiang A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology |
title | A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology |
title_full | A Facile Approach for Fabricating Microstructured Surface Based on Etched Template by Inkjet Printing Technology |
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 |
topic | Article |
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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