Laser printing hierarchical structures with the aid of controlled capillary-driven self-assembly

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 6876-6881

  Hu, Yanlei ^a,b   Lao, Zhaoxin ^a   Cumming, Benjamin P ^b   Wu, Dong ^a   Li, Jiawen ^a   Liang, Haiyi ^a   Chu, Jiaru ^a   Huang, Wenhao ^a   Gu, Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary force; Hierarchical structures; Laser printing; Microobject trapping; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; EVAPORATION; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FORCE; GRAVITY; POLYMERIZATION; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES;

EID: 84930959497     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503861112     Document Type: Article

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