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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 103, Issue 23, Pages 8589-8594Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0603247103
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microtransfer molding; multiphoton absorption polymerization; soft lithography
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There is growing interest in lithographic technologies for creating 3D microstructures. Such techniques are generally serial in nature, prohibiting the mass production of devices. Soft-lithographic techniques show great promise for simple and rapid replication of arrays of microstructures but have heretofore not been capable of direct replication of structures with closed loops. We demonstrate that 3D microstructures created with multiphoton absorption polymerization can be replicated by using microtransfer molding to afford complex daughter structures containing closed loops. This method relieves many of the topological constraints of soft lithography, paving the way for the large-scale replication of true 3D microstructures.
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