High-density fabrication of normally closed microfluidic valves by patterned deactivation of oxidized polydimethylsiloxane.

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Summary

It is shown that changes in the surface chemistry induced by plasma oxidation can spatially be counteracted very cleanly and reliably in a scalable manner by subsequent microcontact printing of residual oligomers from a PDMS stamp.

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2011-01-31
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Polydimethylsiloxane, Microcontact printing, Wetting, Microfluidics, PDMS stamp

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