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- Hydrogel stamps enable the reactive micropatterning of different substrates through a technique known as reactive wet stamping (r-WETS).
- This method addresses various limitations found in traditional soft-lithography approaches.
- Applications include enhancing surface wettability, depositing metallic microstructures, creating supports for electrostatic self-assembly, and enabling multistep reactive patterning.
Article Abstract
Hydrogel stamps are used to reactively micropattern various types of substrates. The method, called reactive wet stamping (r-WETS), is general in nature and overcomes several limitations of conventional soft-lithographic techniques. Illustrative applications of r-WETS in surface wettability modification, deposition of metallic microstructures, preparation of supports for electrostatic self-assembly, and multistep reactive patterning are discussed.
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