TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gordan, O. D.
AU  - Persson, B. N. J.
AU  - Cesa, C. M.
AU  - Mayer, D.
AU  - Hoffmann, B.
AU  - Dieluweit, S.
AU  - Merkel, R.
TI  - On Pattern Transfer in Replica Molding
JO  - Langmuir
VL  - 24
SN  - 0743-7463
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - ACS Publ.
M1  - PreJuSER-62546
SP  - 6636 - 6639
PY  - 2008
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - Nano- and micromolding of elastic materials produces smoothed replicas of the mold structures. This limits the technique's resolution. Here we identified surface tension as the cause of smoothing and derived explicit equations for calculating molded feature shapes. The characteristic length scale for smoothing is given by the ratio of the interface tension to Young's modulus of the molded material. This approach offers the possibility to correct for the smoothing caused by surface tension during mold design. Moreover, it can be exploited to measure interface tension.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:18507415
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000257101100036
DO  - DOI:10.1021/la800728x
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/62546
ER  -