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SUBMITTER: Uchida T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2772125 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Uchida Tomoyuki T Mills K L KL Kuo Chuan-Hsien CH Roh Whijae W Tung Yi-Chung YC Garner Amanda L AL Koide Kazunori K Thouless M D MD Takayama Shuichi S
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20090301 5
This article describes a method for creating submicrometer surface patterns on cubes and microspheres. In this method, PDMS cubes and microspheres are exposed to oxygen plasma, which creates a very thin, hard, surface-modified layer on a compliant substrate. These are then compressed, causing the layer to crack in patterns dictated by the distribution of tensile stresses in the surface layer. Cracks with submicrometer widths were generated on 1 cm3 cubes and 800-microm-diameter microspheres, and ...[more]