Diffusion of alkanethiols in PDMS and its implications on microcontact printing (μCP)

Langmuir

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 622-632

  Balmer, Tobias E ^a,b   Schmid, Heinz ^a   Stutz, Richard ^a   Delamarche, Emmanuel ^a   Michel, Bruno ^a   Spencer, Nicholas D ^b   Wolf, Heiko ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CATALYSTS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; ELASTOMERS; ELLIPSOMETRY; ETCHING; MACROMOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; PRECIOUS METALS; PRINTING; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MICROCONTACT PRINTING; POLY-(DIMETHYLSILOXANE); SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

ALCOHOLS;

ALCOHOLS; DIFFUSION; ETCHING; PRECIOUS METALS; PRINTING;

EID: 12844279905     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la048273l     Document Type: Article

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