Fabrication of microvessels and microlenses from polymers by solvent droplets

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Bonaccurso, Elmar ^a   Butt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Hankeln, Benjamin ^b   Niesenhaus, Brigitte ^b   Graf, Karlheinz ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELASTOMERS; EVAPORATION; HEAT LOSSES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONVEX LENS; LENTICULAR CAVITY; MICROVESSELS; RADIUS OF CURVATURE;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 17944369325     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1886263     Document Type: Article

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