Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages 1351-1355Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la304986e
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- Major Research Plan of NSFC on Nanomanufacturing [90923040]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2009CB724202]
- NSFC [51005178, 51175417]
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The ability to generate a large area micropillar array with spatially varying heights allows for exploring numerous new interesting applications in biotechnology, surface engineering, microfluidics, and so forth. This Letter presents a clever and straightforward method, called electrically modulated microtransfer molding (EM3), for generating such unique microstructures from a silicon mold arrayed with microholes. The key to the process is an application of electrically tunable wettability caused by a spatially modulated voltage, which electrohydrodynamically drives a photocurable and dielectric prepolymer to fill the microholes to a depth depending on the voltage amplitude. Using EM3, micropillar arrays with stepwise or continuously varying heights are successfully fabricated, with the diameter scalable to 1.5 mu m and with the maximum height being equal to the depth of the high-aspect-ratio (more than 10:1) microholes.
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