Editorial for Special Issue: Nanoimprint Lithography Technology and Applications.

Nanomaterials (Basel)

Profactor GmbH, 4407 Steyr-Gleink, Austria.

Published: September 2021

Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) has been an interesting and growing field over the last years since its beginnings in the mid 1990ies [...].

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