Abstract:
A rolling contact layer-by-layer assembly device comprises at least one roller, a cylinder substrate and a motor to rotate the cylinder substrate. The assembly device optionally includes at least one rinsing nozzle and air applicator. The rollers each provide a polyelectrolyte solution to the surface of the cylinder substrate, the polyelectrolyte solutions having an affinity for each other. Excess polyelectrolyte solution can be washed using the rinsing nozzle followed by a drying step prior to the application of the second polyelectrolyte solution. A plurality of bilayers is produced by the continuous application of polyelectrolyte solutions to form an LBL article such as a nano-composite article or film. The film is then removed from the surface of the cylinder substrate.
Abstract:
This invention describes methods of synthesis and applications of a composite material of a colloidal crystal and a substrate. The method includes steps of (a) providing a substrate having a surface with a surface relief pattern; and (b) applying a liquid dispersion containing colloidal particles onto the surface and spinning the substrate whereby colloidal particles are swept across the surface and self-assemble in void spaces on the surface defined by the relief pattern. The resulting composite material (substrate with colloidal crystal) may be used in various applications such as chromatography, for use in lab-on-chip based devices, micro-reactors and the like. The material may be infiltrated by a material and the composite inverted to remove the colloidal particles to produce an inverted colloidal crystal pattern on the substrate. The material may be selected such that the inverted colloidal crystal pattern is a photonic crystal.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a process for forming a patterned fluoropolymer film on a substrate by raised relief printing a fluoropolymer solution with a patterned raised relief printing plate, and drying the solvent from the solution to form the patterned fluoropolymer film. Such fluoropolymer films are useful as antireflective or hydrophobic layers on substrates used in optical displays.
Abstract:
A method of applying a patterned thin-film onto a substrate comprising the steps of plasma treating the substrate. Applying a liquid coating material, comprising one or more compounds selected from the group of organopolysiloxane polymers, organopolysiloxane oligomers, siloxane resins and polysilanes, onto the substrate surface, by a soft lithographic printing technique, preferably microcontact printing to form a patterned film thereon. Where required any residual liquid coating material may be removed from the substrate surface. The process does not require the liquid coating material undergo a curing step such as is required in Decal Transfer Microlithography techniques. Any suitable form of plasma treatment may be used to activate the substrate prior to printing.
Abstract translation:一种将图案化薄膜施加到基底上的方法,包括等离子体处理基底的步骤。 通过软平版印刷技术将包含一种或多种选自有机聚硅氧烷聚合物,有机聚硅氧烷低聚物,硅氧烷树脂和聚硅烷的化合物的液体涂料施用于基材表面上,优选微接触印刷以在其上形成图案化膜。 如果需要,可以从基材表面除去残留的液体涂料。 该方法不需要液体涂覆材料经历诸如Decal Transfer Microlithography技术中所需的固化步骤。 可以使用任何合适的等离子体处理形式来在印刷之前激活基板。
Abstract:
Methods of attaching a ligand to a surface are described that include contacting a surface with a substrate containing an amphiphilic comb polymer. The substrate is configured to provide a pattern of the amphiphilic comb polymer on a selected region of the surface. The substrate can be separated from the surface leaving the amphiphilic comb polymer on the selected region of the surface, thus providing a selected region of the surface having amphiphilic comb polymer on it. A ligand can then be deposited on the surface such that the selected region of the surface having the amphiphilic comb polymer is substantially free of the ligand.
Abstract:
Methods of attaching a ligand to a surface are described that include contacting a surface with a substrate containing an amphiphilic comb polymer. The substrate is configured to provide a pattern of the amphiphilic comb polymer on a selected region of the surface. The substrate can be separated from the surface leaving the amphiphilic comb polymer on the selected region of the surface, thus providing a selected region of the surface having amphiphilic comb polymer on it. A ligand can then be deposited on the surface such that the selected region of the surface having the amphiphilic comb polymer is substantially free of the ligand.
Abstract:
The fluid guiding surfaces of the present invention include a first elongate directional band A arranged substantially in parallel with a second elongate directional band B. Due to differences in physicochemical surface energy of the first and second bands, the contact angle of water on elongate directional band B may be smaller than the contact angle of water on elongate directional band A, thereby guiding fluid droplets along the surface in a direction parallel to elongate directional band B. For example, the difference 74 A−θB between a first contact angle of water on elongate directional band A, and a second contact angle of water on elongate directional band B, is from about 10° to about 140°.
Abstract:
The process of derivatization and patterning of surfaces, and more particularly to the formation of self-assembled molecular monolayers on metal oxide surfaces using microcontact printing and the derivative articles produced thereby.
Abstract:
Improved methods of forming a patterned self-assembled monolayer on a surface and derivative articles are provided. According to one method, an elastomeric stamp is deformed during and/or prior to using the stamp to print a self-assembled molecular monolayer on a surface. According to another method, during monolayer printing the surface is contacted with a liquid that is immiscible with the molecular monolayer-forming species to effect controlled reactive spreading of the monolayer on the surface. Methods of printing self-assembled molecular monolayers on nonplanar surfaces and derivative articles are provided, as are methods of etching surfaces patterned with self-assembled monolayers, including methods of etching silicon. Optical elements including flexible diffraction gratings, mirrors, and lenses are provided, as are methods for forming optical devices and other articles using lithographic molding. A method for controlling the shape of a liquid on the surface of an article is provided, involving applying the liquid to a self-assembled monolayer on the surface, and controlling the electrical potential of the surface.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed towards a method and means for molecularly patterning a surface to promote the patterned attachment of a target adherent. In some preferred embodiments the target adherent is a biological cell, but it can more generally be a biological or chemical species for which attachment at specific sites is desired. The method generally involves using a stamp to microcontact print a first type of molecule on the surface. With the stamp remaining in situ, the process then involves fluidic patterning of a second type of molecule through selected openings defined by selected recesses in the stamp and the surface itself. The second type of molecule should have an adhesion property relative to the target adherent that is complementary to that of the first type of molecule. The stamp is removed only after both the first and second types of molecules have been transferred to the surface.